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English: Japanese Type 97 Shipboard Attack Aircraft (B5N "Kate") Wrecked on Indispensable Reefs, at the time it was inspected by a Patrol Squadron 71 crew, 9 June 1942. The plane is from the Japanese aircraft carrier Shokaku and bears the tail marking EI-306. It went down during a Battle of the Coral Sea search mission a month earlier and has its cockpit area burned out.
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Source Naval History and Heritage Command, https://www.history.navy.mil/
Author Unknown authorUnknown author
Camera location12° 40′ 12″ S, 160° 25′ 12″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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Japanese B5N torpedo bomber wrecked on Indispensable Reef

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9 June 1942

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