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A Nakajima B5N Kate, the infamous Japanese torpedo bomber of World War II. Brutally devastating, it gained its fearsome reputation when it became the aircraft that killed the Arizona at the raid on Pearl Harbor.
Later on, it would take out three of the U.S. Navy's fleet carriers, the first of which was the Lexington at the Battle of Coral Sea.

Or well, sort of. Its actually a BT-13 Valiant masquerading as a Kate, complete with a Long Lance torpedo replica.

For those unfamiliar with the Kate, the reason a BT-13 is dressed up as a Kate is because no real Kates survived World War II. They were lightly built and rather delicate, very very easy to shoot down so most of them were shot to pieces. The few surviors of the war were cast into the scrap yard and cut up.
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Photo by me at Seymor Johnson Air Force Base, North Carolina at the Wings Over Wayne Airshow.

Description
A Nakajima B5N Kate, the infamous Japanese torpedo bomber of World War II. Brutally devastating, it gained its fearsome reputation when it became the aircraft that killed the Arizona at the raid on Pearl Harbor.
Later on, it would take out three of the U.S. Navy's fleet carriers, the first of which was the Lexington at the Battle of Coral Sea.

Or well, sort of. Its actually a BT-13 Valiant masquerading as a Kate, complete with a Long Lance torpedo replica.

For those unfamiliar with the Kate, the reason a BT-13 is dressed up as a Kate is because no real Kates survived World War II. They were lightly built and rather delicate, very very easy to shoot down so most of them were shot to pieces. The few surviors of the war were cast into the scrap yard and cut up.
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Photo by me at Seymor Johnson Air Force Base, North Carolina at the Wings Over Wayne Airshow.