ancientaviator62 (#11037),
True, according to Peter c. Smith's "Vengeance!", which is the nearest thing to a bible on the "Vultee Vengeance". Some Mk IVs were also supplied to the Free French in Agadir, but they did not have much success with them [same source]. We had some in the UK as TTs.
I would think that, as I've said somewhere here, the trouble was that: "the Vengeance (Mks I-III) were 'one-trick ponies' - excellent dive-bombers, but useless for anything else" - except as target tugs. I never had anything to do with the IV, which I'd guess would be useless, period.
It would be marvellous to hear from a RAAF ex-operational VV driver like George Duffee (I'm alive, so no reason why there should not be others), as they got a lot of the Mk.IVs, and may have tried to dive some as well as converting them to TT.
I live in hope ! Danny.