LYCOS RETRIEVER 
Scout Bomber
built 640 days ago
The major ships to be concerned with coming out of the Garrison, from a Fighter craft view, are the Adv Scout, Bomber and Heavy Bomber, and the Gunship. I’ve noticed that a lot of commanders don’t spend the money on Adv Scouts, and that is a real shame because looking at just what the US government spends on Intelligence Agencies it is a serious thing to consider. Not only do these guys have great scanner range, and will greatly increase the ability of your Interceptors in sectors that don’t have probes, but they are key to finding enemy probes and dropping some for yourself. Advanced warnings are your greatest defense in combating the enemy.
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On 17 December, the Marines were heartened by the arrival on Midway of the seventeen obsolescent SB2U-3 Vindicator dive-bombers of Marine Scout Bombing Squadron 231 (VMSB-231). This squadron had been aboard Lexington when the Japanese treacherously struck the US Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor, and had been diverted with Lexington to hunt for the Japanese carrier force. The seventeen elderly Vindicators were subsequently shepherded from Hickham Field on Oahu across 1,137 miles of open ocean to Midway by a PBY patrol flying boat. First Lieutenant David W. Silvey:
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With a top speed of 205 miles per hour, this sturdy little scout bomber met the exacting demands of service with great success. The power plant was a 14 cylinder Pratt & Whitney Twin Wasp Junior of 700 hp. The cylinders were arranged in two banks of seven each, rotated 26 degrees from each other powering a common, single crankshaft.
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The SB2U-3 Vindicator dive-bomber was already obsolete when eighteen of them were assigned for front-line service with Marine Scout Bombing Squadron 231 (VMSB-231) on Midway. The Marine pilots jokingly called their elderly planes "vibrators". They were slow moving targets for the swarms of deadly Zero fighters that protected the Japanese carrier force that attacked Midway on 4 June 1942.
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