The updated B5N2 played a major role in the Attack on Pearl Harbor. One of the B5N2s carried Mitsuo Fuchida, the commander of the attack, with one high-level bomber from the carrier Hiryū credited with sinking the American battleship Arizona. The B5N2 torpedo bombers also sank the battleships West Virginia, California, Oklahoma and Utah. Five ...

May 26, 2023 · A captured Japanese Nakajima B5N2 torpedo bomber tested by the U.S. Navy Naval Air Test Center Patuxent River, Maryland (USA), in February 1943.

When Japan attacked the USA, the B5N2 had wholly replaced the B5N1 with operational units. However, with its puny defensive armament of a single machine-gun and laden with a large bomb or torpedo, the B5N began to suffer very heavily.

Dec 7, 2023 · A B5N2 passes close to USS Noprthampton at the battle of Santa Cruz Islands. In early 1942, Nagumo assaulted the Dutch East Indies, and this costed the British among others the loss of the Dorsetshire, Cornwall and Hermes, by B5N2s and D3A2s (Type 97 and Type 99).

Oct 2, 2014 · On December 7, 1941, Commander Mitsuo Fuchida flew this plane as commander of the Pearl Harbor attack force. After the jump, a look at the lead plane of the major event. The Pearl Harbor raid that started World War II for the United …

B5N2 'Kate' When the Pacific War began the Nakajima B5N2 was the most modern type of carrier borne torpedo to be operated by any of the worlds navies, and on December 7, 1941, 144 aircraft of this type crippled the battleship force of the US Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor.

Nakajima B5N2 History The Nakajima B5N2 - Allied reporting-name 'Kate' - was the sole shipboard torpedo-bomber of the Japanese Navy at the start of the Pacific War. It was by then quite old, having been designed to meet a specification of 1935, and was already judged to …

May 19, 2019 · One 746 kw (1,000 hp) Nakajima Sakae II fourteen-cylinder two-row air-cooled radial engine. One flexible 7.7 mm (0.303 in) type 92 machine gun in rear cockpit; provision to carry three 250 kg (550 lb) or one 800 kg (1,760 lb) torpedo.

When Japan attacked the United States, it had replaced the all B5N1 to B5N2. 144 B5N2 participated in the attack on Pearl Harbor. Within twelve months, this model of aircraft sank the USS Hornet, Lexington and Yorktown.

When the United States entered the war in late 1941, Japan's Nakajima B5N series torpedo bombers were considered the best of their kind in the world. The aircraft was developed in 1935 at the request of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) and made its first flight in January 1937.