How useful would a late-war Curtiss dive bomber have been during the Korean War?
Short answerPotentially useful for on-call fire support, but not useful enough to justify rebuilding doctrine and support systems around an obsolete type.
NotesA surviving dive bomber could place ordnance accurately for troops in Korea. Paper performance alone does not make the aircraft operationally valuable, however. The navy would have to rebuild training, maintenance, tactics, and command arrangements around a type that its doctrine had already left behind. A technically useful platform can become institutionally obsolete even while it retains a plausible mission.