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    The Nakajima B5N (Japanese: 中島 B5N, Allied reporting name "Kate") was the standard carrier-based torpedo bomber of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) for...
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    specification to Nakajima for a Navy Experimental 14-Shi Carrier Attack Aircraft capable of carrying the same external weapons load as the B5N. The new plane...
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    The Nakajima Aircraft Company (中島飛行機株式会社, Nakajima Hikōki Kabushiki Kaisha) was a prominent Japanese aircraft manufacturer and aviation engine manufacturer...
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    740 sq ft). This caused problems in handling aircraft because the wings of a Nakajima B5N "Kate" torpedo bomber could neither be spread nor folded in the upper...
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    Nakajima B5N "Kate" torpedo bombers (Lt. Yoshiaki Irikiin†) Hiyō 21 Mitsubishi A6M "Zeke" fighters 18 Aichi D3A "Val" dive bombers   9 Nakajima B5N "Kate"...
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    18 Nakajima B5N,"Kate" torpedo bombers Kaga: 74 aircraft (sunk) 27 Mitsubishi A6M Zero, fighters 18 Aichi D3A,"Val" dive bombers 27 Nakajima B5N,"Kate"...
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    Hoashi) 20 Aichi D3A Type 99 "Val" dive bombers (Lt. Masao Yamaguchi) 19 Nakajima B5N Type 97 "Kate" torpedo bombers (Lt. Tatsuo Ichihara) Zuikaku (Capt. Ichihei...
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  • featured Aichi D3A Val dive bombers, Mitsubishi A6M Zero fighters and Nakajima B5N Kate torpedo bombers. Douglas EA-3B Skywarrior Grumman F-14A Tomcat Grumman...
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    bombers often combined their attacks upon enemy warships with the IJN Nakajima B5N Kate torpedo bomber; consequently enemy vessels were often sunk by a...
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    Harbor, Kaga carried a total of 18 Mitsubishi A6M Zero fighters, 27 Nakajima B5N torpedo bombers and 27 Aichi D3A dive bombers, plus three crated aircraft...
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    the Douglas TBD Devastator and Mitsubishi G3M (Nell) in 1935 and the Nakajima B5N (Kate) and Bristol Beaufort a year after that. Even before the outbreak...
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  • pilot in the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) during World War II. He flew Nakajima B5N torpedo bomber from the carrier Sōryū during the Attack on Pearl Harbor...
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    Hideki Shingo) 27 Aichi D3A "Val" dive bombers (Lt. Cdr. Mamoru Seki) 18 Nakajima B5N "Kate" torpedo bombers (Lt. Cdr. Shigeharu Murata) Zuikaku (Capt. Tameteru...
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  • purpose. Torpedo bombers The Nakajima B6N "Jill" torpedo bomber incorporated considerable improvements over the Nakajima B5N "Kate" in speed and range but...
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    742 sq ft). This caused problems in handling aircraft because the wings of a Nakajima B5N "Kate" torpedo bomber could neither be spread nor folded in the upper...
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    of aircraft on the morning of 7 December 1941. In the first wave, 27 Nakajima B5N "Kate" torpedo bombers from Akagi torpedoed the battleships Oklahoma...
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  • Carrier Attack Bomber Mabel 1937 125 IJN Nakajima B5N Navy Type 97 Carrier Attack Bomber Kate 1937 1150~ IJN Nakajima B6N Tenzan Navy Carrier Torpedo Bomber...
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    The Nakajima Ki-43 Hayabusa (隼, "Peregrine falcon"), formal Japanese designation Army Type 1 Fighter (一式戦闘機, Ichi-shiki sentōki) is a single-engine land-based...
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    seven men and spreading burning aviation gas over the deck. A flight of Nakajima B5N "Kate" torpedo bombers attacked Hornet and scored two hits, which seriously...
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  • based-reconnaissance aircraft. The design, designated Type S by Nakajima, had a great deal in common with the Nakajima B5N torpedo-bomber that was being developed in parallel...
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    first wave of Mitsubishi A6M Zero fighters, Aichi D3A dive bombers and Nakajima B5N torpedo bombers. G3Ms of the 701 Air Group put two torpedoes into heavy...
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    carriers) 49 Nakajima B5N Kate bombers armed with 800‑kg (1760 lb) armor-piercing bombs, organized in four sections (one failed to launch) 40 B5N bombers armed...
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    aircraft. Of all the aircraft in front-line service in 1941, only the Nakajima B5N "Kate" torpedo bomber would fit, when positioned at an angle with its...
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    single-engine aircraft of the mid-1930s. It was intended as a backup for the Nakajima B5N "Kate" torpedo bomber. Although designed as a carrier-based aircraft...
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    The Nakajima A4N was a carrier-based fighter used by the Imperial Japanese Navy, and the last biplane designed by Nakajima. The first prototype was completed...
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    The Nakajima Kikka (橘花, "tachibana orange blossom"), initially designated Kōkoku Nigō Heiki (皇国二号兵器, "Imperial Weapon No. 2"), is Japan's first turbojet-powered...
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    torpedo bomber, and better than its Japanese counterpart, the obsolete Nakajima B5N "Kate". Later Avenger models carried radar equipment for the ASW and...
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    ship: Shōkaku 58 total – 21 Aichi D3A Type 99 "kanbaku" dive bombers, 19 Nakajima B5N Type 97 "kankō" torpedo bombers, 18 A6M2 Zero fighters; Zuikaku 63 total...
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    aircraft to also be used for level bombing missions. The Bristol Beaufort, Nakajima B5N and Grumman TBF Avenger, while designed as torpedo bombers, saw some...
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  • Avengers on the U.S. side and Mitsubishi A6M Zeros, Aichi D3A "Vals" and Nakajima B5N "Kates" on the Japanese side. Realism settings such as invincibility...
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