By 1943, aircraft design and tactics had improved, and by the time the A-25 Shrike variant of the Curtiss Helldiver was deployed ... U.S. Army Air Corps base for training air crews of B-17s ...

A nearly intact Curtiss SB2C-1C Helldiver rests just outside Maalaea Harbor. The plane crash-landed after a training exercise ... From this base, countless aircraft launched — and some ended ...