Editing Vought SB2U Vindicator (section)

===U.S. Navy===
[[File:SB2U-3 VMSB-231 Ewa 7Dec1941.jpg|thumb|SB2U destroyed at Pearl Harbor]]
[[File:Convoy WS-12 en route to Cape Town, 1941.jpg|thumb|SB2U from {{USS|Ranger|CV-4|2}} in November 1941.]]
[[File:SB2U taking off from Midway Jun 1942.jpg|thumb|SB2U-3 of VMSB-241, MAG-21, takes off from Eastern Island shortly before the Battle of Midway.]]
[[File:USS Wasp (CV-7) in at anchor in Casco Bay, Maine (USA), on 25 March 1942 (80-G-K-447).jpg|thumb|SB2U-3s on deck of {{USS|Wasp|CV-7|2}} in June 1942.]]

Deliveries to the US Navy began in December 1937, when four aircraft joined [[VFA-14 (U.S. Navy)|VB-3]] aboard the aircraft carrier {{USS|Saratoga|CV-3|2}}, replacing [[Curtiss F11C Goshawk|Curtiss BFC]]-2 biplanes. As well as ''Saratoga'', Vindicators served on the carriers {{USS|Lexington|CV-2|2}}, {{USS|Ranger|CV-4|2}}, and {{USS|Wasp|CV-7|2}}.<ref name="AE p5-6">Green and Swanborough 1978, pp. 5–6.</ref> Air Group Nine, destined for {{USS|Essex|CV-9|2}}, trained in Vindicators aboard the escort carrier {{USS|Charger|CVE-30|2}}, but they transitioned to the [[Douglas SBD Dauntless]] before ''Essex'' joined the war.<ref name="McKillop"/>

During the [[attack on Pearl Harbor]], seven ''Vindicators'' from the U.S. squadron VMSB-231 were destroyed at [[Marine Corps Air Station Ewa|Ewa Field]].<ref>Doll 1992, p. 5</ref>