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- Radar System on Kate Saipan
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- Radar System on B5N Kate Saipan
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- Kate with white surrender scheme
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- folded wing and radar antenna
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- Arrestor hook
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- B5N2 radar on wing Saipan 1944
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- Kate code 302
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- Captured B5N2 1945 2
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- B5N1 “Kate” Yo-335 of the Yokosuka Kōkūtai
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- B5N1 on the ground
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- Wreckage of B5N from Kaga flown by Lt Mimori Suzuki Pearl Harbor 1942
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- B5N2 taking off from carrier Shokaku for strike at Pearl Harbor, 7 December 1941
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- B5N2 Kanoya airfield
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- B5N2 with radar
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- Captured B5N2 “Kate” from TAIC
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- B5N2 “Kate” New Guinea 1943
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- B5N2 EI-311 from Shokaku
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- B5N from Zuikaku Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands. USS South Dakota in the background
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- Nakajima B5N Kate KEB-306 of the 931st hikotai Saipan 1944
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- Captured B5N2 1945 3
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- Nakajima B5N1 9-348 of the 14th Kokutai
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- B5N2 EII-307 from Zuikaku, December 7 1941 over Pearl Harbor
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- Captured B5N2 “Kate” 1945
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- B5N1 2
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- B5N2 from Zuiho over battleship Yamato, Truck March 1943
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- B5N “Kate” from Shokaku during the attack on Pearl Harbor near NAS Kaneohe
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- Nakajima B5N Kate torpedo-bomber Saipan 1944
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- Nakajima B5N2, P1Y and C-54 at Atsugi 1945
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- Nakajima B5N2 leaves carrier Shokaku for Pearl Harbor attack
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- Nakajima B5N1 with folded wings
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- Captured B5N2 KEB306 of the 931st hikotai
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- B5N2 Kate shot down by PB4Y-1 6 June 1944
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- B5N2 3
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- B5N2 “Kate” carrying a bomb
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- Nakajima B5N1 Kate takes off from carrier Akagi, 1942
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- Wreckage of Nakajima B5N 1945
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- B5N take off from Shokaku in October 1942
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- B5N2 during Battle of the Santa Cruz, USS Northampton in the background, 24 October 1942
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- B5N 363 of the Kasumigaura Kokutai
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- B5N “Kate” take off
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- Loading a 60 kg bomb on a B5N
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- Captured radar equipped Nakajima B5N2 1944
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- B5N with white surrender scheme and green crosses, 1945
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- B5N from Akagi to attack Ceylon on the raid in April 1942
Type 97 Carrier Attack Bomber B5N was the Imperial Japanese Navy’s standard torpedo bomber for the first years of World War II. While the B5N was substantially faster and more capable than its Allied counterparts, the TBD and Fairey Swordfish, it was close to obsolescence by the time of the Pearl Harbor Attack. Nevertheless, the B5N operated throughout the whole war. Although primarily used as a carrier-based aircraft, it was also used as a land-based bomber on occasions. The B5N had a crew of 3: pilot, navigator/bombardier/observer, and radio operator/gunner.
The B5N was designed by a team led by Katsuji Nakamura in response to a 1935 specification by the Navy for a torpedo bomber to replace the Yokosuka B4Y. Internally designated Type K by Nakajima, it successfully competed with the Mitsubishi B5M for a production contract. The first prototype flew in January 1937 and was ordered into production soon afterwards.