It is said that during the Neutrality Patrol Atlantic deployments between 20 April and 2 December 1941 the VS-5 squadron on board of CV-5 Yorktown used a mixed bag of SBD-2 Dauntless and SNJ-3 Texan scouts. Has anybody ever seen the gray-painted SNJ-3 sporting 5-S-... fuselage codes? Were these aircraft hook-equipped SNJ-3Cs or "plain" SNJ-3s with no arrester gear?
Cheers
Michael