In this video, we talk about the Vultee A31 Vengeance, an American dive bomber design from World War 2 made almost exclusively to export to other allied countries. We first talk about the initial customer in France and how the fall of France to Nazi Germany led to Britain picking up the project. We then look at how the United States stepped in after Pearl Harbor, seizing it, to see how well it performed. We then look at why the US chose not to adopt it over a plane like the Douglas SBD Dauntless and instead, began exporting it.

We talk about the performance of the A31 in the Royal Australian Air Force, serving in a limited role in Indonesia and the Pacific in general. We then look at the performance of the A31 in the British Royal Air Force over in the Burma Campaign. We talk about why Britain elected to use the A31 only in Burma and not in Europe. We then talk about how the British government hated the plane, an opinion not shared by pilots in Burma, and how they brought an end to the service of the A31. We end by looking at the overall experience of the A31 and why it has been lost to time.

Vengeance!: The Vultee Vengeance Dive Bomber link: https://archive.org/details/vengeance...