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Description: Japanese Type 97 Shipboard Attack Aircraft ("Kate") Wrecked on Indispensable Reef, 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". The aircraft was one of two that sighted the US Navy ships Neosho (oiler) and Sims (destroyer) on May 7 during the Battle of the Coral Sea. Running low on fuel, the aircraft ditched on the reef and the crew was rescued by a Japanese destroyer the same day.
Title: Kate Shokaku crashed
Credit: History.navy.mil. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.
Author: Patrol Squadron 71 crew
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