This was the Navy's first monoplane Scout-Bomber opening up a new generation af Navy Aviation in the 30's. By the time the war had started, the Vindicator was sadly outperformed by the Japanese fighters in the Pacific.
This is an important model in your WSAM because of how it bravely ushered in the new era. It's in pre-involvment colors, you'll notice.

An all-metal, low-wing monoplane with two crew seated in tandem beneath a long glasshouse, simple radial engine and retractable undercarriage: the definition was typical of the US Navy scout-bombers and torpedo-bombers of the late thirties-the new generation which followed the classic biplanes and laid the foundation for the combat types of World War II....

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