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    The Vought SB2U Vindicator is an American carrier-based dive bomber developed for the United States Navy in the 1930s, the first monoplane in this role...
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    Corporation, Chance Vought, Vought-Sikorsky, LTV Aerospace (part of Ling-Temco-Vought), Vought Aircraft Companies, and Vought Aircraft Industries. The first...
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  • 15,678 Vought F4U Corsair fighter-bomber 1940 retired 1979 12,571 Vought SB2U Vindicator/Chesapeake dive bomber 1936 retired 1945 260 Vought TBU/Consolidated...
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    United States Navy during the 1930s. Developed as an alternative to the SB2U Vindicator monoplane, the aircraft proved unsatisfactory to the Navy in comparison...
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  • Brethren Vought SB2U Vindicator, a US Navy aircraft used in the 1930s Meggitt Vindicator II, a Canadian UAV training target drone USNS Vindicator (T-AGOS-3)...
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    in World War II during the Battle of Midway. Fleming piloted a Vought SB2U Vindicator dive bomber in an attack on the Japanese cruiser Mikuma. Richard...
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    Curtiss SB2C Helldiver Fairey Barracuda Junkers Ju 87 Stuka Saab 17 Vought SB2U Vindicator Vultee A-31 Vengeance Related lists List of aircraft of World War...
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    Northrop A-17 Northrop BT Northrop XFT-2 Vought SBU Corsair Vought SB2U Vindicator Vought V-141 Vought XF3U Vought XO4U-2 There is a R-1535-96 on display...
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  • (withdrawn 1943) Vought SB2U Vindicator - Carrier-based dive bomber Vought TBU Sea Wolf/Consolidated TBY Sea Wolf - Carrier-based torpedo-bomber Vought V-173 -...
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    Zeros helped defeat the next American air strike from Midway, 11 Vought SB2U Vindicator dive bombers from VMSB-241, which attacked the battleship Haruna...
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    production as a result of the competition included the Brewster SBA, the Vought SB2U Vindicator, and the Northrop BT-1, the last of which would evolve into the...
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    in January 1941, and was the second squadron to receive the new Vought SB2U Vindicator eventually receiving 27 of the type in 1941. Along with the new...
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    and was equipped with two Sea Hurricanes and fourteen American Vought SB2U Vindicators, which the British called the "Chesapeake". The squadron also received...
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  • Retired 197 Vought A-7 Corsair II US 1965 Retired 1,569 Vought F4U Corsair US 1940 Retired 12,571 Vought SB2U Vindicator US 1936 Retired 260 Vought SBU Corsair...
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  • Chesapeake Bay Chesapeake 1000, a crane ship Vought Chesapeake, a British name for the Vought SB2U Vindicator Chesapeake Bay Retriever, a breed of dog Chesapeake...
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  • dive bomber Vought SB2U Vindicator carrier-based dive bomber Vought TBU Sea Wolf/Consolidated TBY Sea Wolf carrier-based torpedo-bomber Vought V-173 experimental...
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    A Vought SB2U Vindicator from the USS Ranger flies anti-submarine patrol over Convoy WS12 en route to Cape Town, 27 November 1941....
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    early December 1941, Lexington was ferrying 18 U.S. Marine Corps Vought SB2U Vindicator dive bombers to Midway Atoll and at that time she embarked 65 of...
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    depart Pearl Harbor on 5 December 1941 to ferry 18 U.S. Marine Corps Vought SB2U Vindicator dive bombers of VMSB-231 to reinforce the base at Midway Island...
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    Corps stationed 19 Douglas SBD Dauntless, seven F4F-3 Wildcats, 17 Vought SB2U Vindicators, and 21 Brewster F2A Buffalos. The USAAF contributed a squadron...
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    Roc Aircraft of comparable role, configuration, and era Aichi D3A Vought SB2U Vindicator Douglas SBD Dauntless Junkers Ju 87 Stuka Related lists List of...
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    from Midway, 11 Vought SB2U Vindicators from VMSB-241, which attacked the battleship Haruna starting around 08:30. Three of the Vindicators were shot down...
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    American air strike from Midway, shooting down three of the eleven Vought SB2U Vindicator dive bombers from VMSB-241, which attacked the battleship Haruna...
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    Vought SB2U Vindicator covering Convoy WS-12 en route to Cape Town....
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    torpedo bomber pilot aboard the USS Saratoga, before joining a Vought SB2U Vindicator dive bomber squadron aboard USS Ranger. In 1941, he was recruited...
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  • Verville-Sperry R-3 racer Vought FU fighter Vought O2U Corsair observation Vought SBU Corsair carrier-based fighter/dive bomber Vought SB2U Vindicator carrier-based...
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    XPTBH, Northrop BT (which became the Douglas SBD Dauntless), Vought SB2U Vindicator and Vought XSB3U. Dann 1996, p.20. Doll 1992, p.4. Smith 1982, p.38....
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  • Periscope, as well. The principal aircraft depicted in Dive Bomber are Vought SB2U Vindicator dive bombers and Douglas TBD Devastator torpedo bombers, although...
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  • France Night bomber 1918 Prototype 1 Vought F4U Corsair US Fighter bomber 1940 Operational 12,571 Vought SB2U Vindicator/Chesapeake US Dive bomber 1936 Operational...
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    equipped with two Hawker Sea Hurricane fighter aircraft and two Vought SB2U Vindicator, an American carrier-based dive bomber which was known as the Chesapeake...
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