Nakajima B5N ‘Kate’ and B6N ‘Jill’ Units (Combat Aircraft, 119)

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 Entering
service during the Sino-Japanese War, the Nakajima B5N (code-named
“Kate”) excelled and went on to achieve surprising and dramatic
successes in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. It also contributed to
the sinking of the U.S. aircraft carriers USS Lexington at the Battle of the Coral Sea, USS Yorktown at the Battle of Midway, and USS Hornet at
the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands. Its replacement, the Nakajima B6N
“Jill,” while a marked improvement over its illustrious predecessor,
was never able to achieve its full potential in combat due to advances
in Allied aircraft, finding itself relegated to the dreaded Kamikaze
strikes in the latter part of the war.