[Leandros]

Originally Posted by De Ruyter

Yeah, the Vindicator was a dive bomber. At least the British did have Catalinas. I don't know much about the Vindicator, maybe it could carry torpedoes as well.

My point is that the standard USN torpedo bomber at the start of the war was the TBD Devastator, later relieved by the Avenger. And, yes, the British did have the Catalina - PBY in the US vocabulary. Not many of these served in the Pacific, though.

Fred