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The Mitsubishi Ki-51 (Army designation "Type 99 Assault Plane". Allied nickname "Sonia") was a light bomber/dive bomber in service with the Imperial Japanese Army during WW II. It first flew in mid-1939. Initially deployed against Chinese forces, it proved to be too slow to hold up against the fighter aircraft of the other Allied powers. However, it performed a useful ground-attack role in the China-Burma-India theatre, notably from airfields too rough for many other aircraft. As the war drew to a close, they began to be used in Kamikanze attacks. Total production was around 2,385 units.
On the day Hiroshima was destroyed by an atomic bomb two Ki-51s scored the last Japanese victory against US submarines, and of which is confirmed as the 52nd USN submarine lost during the war; essentially, she would have been second to last, as USS Halibut (SS-232) was irreparably damaged in action months before Bullhead was lost, and was decommissioned in early 1945. Two depth charges hit USS Bullhead (SS-332), in which she later exploded and sank with all hands.
Charles Lindbergh, flying a P-38 Lighting shot down a Ki-51 after a vigorous dogfight in which the much slower Ki-51 utilized its low speed maneuverability and made a fight of it.
Drie uitvoeringen mogelijk;
- Assault Plane, 1st Squadron, 27th Flight Regiment, Kuala Lumpur, 1942.
- Tactical Recon Plane, Unknown Unit, New Guinea, 1944.
- Tactical Recon Plane, 2nd squadron (Originally 89th Independent Flight Squadron), 38th Flight Regiment, Borneo, 1945.
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Maten;
- Lengte 128 mm
- Spanwijdte 172 mm.
