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Aircraft History Built by Aichi. Delivered to the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) as Type 99 Carrier Bomber / Ku Ku Kamba (Kanbaku) / D3A1 Model 11 Val manufacture number unknown. Wartime History On December 7, 1941 took off from one of the six aircraft carriers as part of the Japanese attack against Pearl Harbor and Oahu. This aircraft was shot down and crashed. Wreckage A piece of the left tail stabilizer was recovered from a crash site on Oahu. The wreckage is approximately 2' x 3' and shows impact damage from the crash. The exterior has traces of the gray-green paint, possibly atop a red color. The interior is painted with aotake overpainted with black paint. The edge has a hook fitting to attach an antenna. This artifact was first displayed at Schofield Barracks. Since 1989, displayed at Fort DeRussy / U.S. Army Museum of Hawaii with accession number HAW 2609/535. The display includes a line drawing of a Type 97 Kate with the caption: "Horizontal stabilizer section from one of five 'Kate' bombers shot down in the raid." In fact, this piece of wreckage is from a D3A1 Model 11 Val dive bomber. The providence of this wreckage is unknown. Fort DeRussy / U.S. Army Museum of Hawaii records state the piece is from the crash site of a D3A1 Val that crashed at Wahiawa Power Station. In fact, two Vals crashed in that area: one at Hawaiian Electric Company power station and another at 711 Neal Avenue. Likely, this piece was recovered from the Val that crashed into a sugar cane field at Aiea Heights on Oahu. References Pearl Harbor Japanese Aircraft Crash Sites, Records, & Artifacts: Part IV by James Landsdale Thanks to James Landsdale and CB Gillman for additional information Contribute
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