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KATE 🇯🇵
The date is sometime during the middle of 1937 and the the Nakajima B5N2 A.K.A. "Kate" takes off for the first time to fly for the Imperial Japanese Navy! 😱 The B5N2's primary role was being a standard carrier based torpedo bomber for much of World War II. Believe it or not, her national origin is Japanese. 😛 The manufacturer who created her is the "Nakajima Aircraft Company" and the company managed to build 1,149 units for the Imperial Navy. Although, Kate was much faster than her allied counter parts, the American Douglas TBD Devastator and the British Fairey Swordfish and Fairey Albacore Torpedo biplanes, Kate was becoming obsolescence by mid 1941! Unfortunately, the B5N managed to fight for the Imperial Navy throughout the entire Second Great War due to the delayed development of her successor, the B6N! During the early stages of the Pacific war, the aircraft managed to achieve some successes in locations such as Pearl Harbor , the Coral Sea, Midway and the Santa Cruz Islands! The two greatest successes for the B5N2 was sinking the USS Arizona during the attack on Pearl Harbor and the B5N2s also managed to sink 2 US aircraft carriers named the USS Lexington And and the USS Hornet. A B5N2 also managed to heavily cripple the USS Yorktown which lead to it's sinking by a Japanese submarine I-168! 😱 The B5Ns eventually got replaced by the B6Ns for being the primary aircraft in the Navy's Frontline, but it continues service and flies secondary roles such as training, target towing, and anti-submarine warfare. The B5Ns were also used as bombers during the unsuccessful defense of the Philippines in October of 1944, suffering severe losses! 😱 Later in the war, the last surviving ones was used for Kamikaze attacks! 🙊
KATE 🇯🇵
The date is sometime during the middle of 1937 and the the Nakajima B5N2 A.K.A. "Kate" takes off for the first time to fly for the Imperial Japanese Navy! 😱 The B5N2's primary role was being a standard carrier based torpedo bomber for much of World War II. Believe it or not, her national origin is Japanese. 😛 The manufacturer who created her is the "Nakajima Aircraft Company" and the company managed to build 1,149 units for the Imperial Navy. Although, Kate was much faster than her allied counter parts, the American Douglas TBD Devastator and the British Fairey Swordfish and Fairey Albacore Torpedo biplanes, Kate was becoming obsolescence by mid 1941! Unfortunately, the B5N managed to fight for the Imperial Navy throughout the entire Second Great War due to the delayed development of her successor, the B6N! During the early stages of the Pacific war, the aircraft managed to achieve some successes in locations such as Pearl Harbor , the Coral Sea, Midway and the Santa Cruz Islands! The two greatest successes for the B5N2 was sinking the USS Arizona during the attack on Pearl Harbor and the B5N2s also managed to sink 2 US aircraft carriers named the USS Lexington And and the USS Hornet. A B5N2 also managed to heavily cripple the USS Yorktown which lead to it's sinking by a Japanese submarine I-168! 😱 The B5Ns eventually got replaced by the B6Ns for being the primary aircraft in the Navy's Frontline, but it continues service and flies secondary roles such as training, target towing, and anti-submarine warfare. The B5Ns were also used as bombers during the unsuccessful defense of the Philippines in October of 1944, suffering severe losses! 😱 Later in the war, the last surviving ones was used for Kamikaze attacks! 🙊