HarmoniousDragmaster wrote:-
Wasn't the SB2C something quite different
He was quite correct the Curtiss SB2C was the Helldiver of course.
Perhaps I was a little hasty in accepting Richard's answer however as he identified that two aircraft had been delivered to Germany and that Ernst Udet was involved. I assumed that he was referring to the Curtis export Hawk II.
Udet had been so impressed with the demonstrations of dive-bombing with of the aircraft that he had the German Air Ministry buy two Hawk IIs to introduce dive bombing tactics in Germany.