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Isn't that always the way when you have an interest in an obscure aircraft :rolleyes:

Thank you again :) I hadn't thought it had dropped a torpedo in anger. Information on the use of this this plane is so... hard... to... find :(

Thank you both! :D Info on this plane is scarce and not all mentioned topredo capability - which made me doubt that fact. Still, would be interesting to know if the Fins, Greeks or Yugoslavians ever used it with a torp as it seems to have mostly been used as a recon plane.

Not a problem. Glad to be of help.

That is one of the 'baka bombs'. The American name for them at least, Baka means fool in Japanese - I think. Ohka - means cherry blossom - the flower painted on its side. As for that 'crash'. I don't think it is one. I assumed the photos were in sequence, but if that were the case you...

This is an interesting a rare bird. But was it ever designed, tested or operated as a torpdo bomber? A search in the interweb is little help so far as some sites list the aircraft a torpedo bomber and others not. the few photos I have found only show it armed with defensive guns and...

That is a C-47 (DC-3) Dakota in that crash. But there is at least one other aircraft involved. There is the upright wingtip in the second photo -I'm pretty sure it doesn't belong to the C-47. In the third and fourth pictures there is a fuselage wedged under the C-47's fuselage. No idea what it...