AII-308 was flown by a wingman. The empennage base color is brown.
One Kaga's KATE is known NOT to have a brown empennage.
INFO CREDIT: Mr. David Aiken
AII-316 was flown by a buntaicho, Lt. Yoshitaka Mikami (pilot). The empennage base color is brown.
One Kaga's KATE is known NOT to have a brown empennage.
Kaga’s B5N2 flying over Hickam Air Base
This photo shows Battleship Row in the background (at photo center) burning and the Hickam Air Base at photo
right burning too. The B5N2 racks to carry the 800kg bomb are clearly visible.
AII-318 was flown by a wingman. The empennage base color is brown.
One Kaga's KATE is known NOT to have a brown empennage.
[AII-] 352 was flown by a wingman. The empennage base color is brown.
One Kaga's KATE is known NOT to have a brown empennage.
[AII-] 352 and AII-318 photo #1
[AII-] 352 and AII-318 are high level bombers from the Kaga high level first wave unit on 7 December 1941.
The crew identity is unknown. The date attack, for the Japanese is 16th year, 12th month, 8th day.
The year is given as the year of an Emperor's reign, in Hirohito's case this was known as 'Showa', so the this
can be literally read as 16 Showa or the 16th year of Hirohito which equated to 1941. The day is Tokyo time,
i.e, when it was the 7th here (or in Hawaii) it was the 8th in Japan. Note the demarkation between the fuselage
green and the brown tail of "352" [with AII-318 in the background.] Note the absence of portside "AII-" on
Kaga KATE "352" over Oahu. This means where the deck crew had not completed the painting yet it was in operation.
See the note on the brown tail in EII-307 and how it is determined NOT to be red.