Type 91 Kai 2 torpedoes on Imperial Japanese Navy aircraft carrier Akagi flight deck. The carrier is at Hitokappu Bay in the Kuriles just prior to departing for the attack on Pearl Harbor. The carrier in the background is Hiryū.
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M.Ferkl. Mitsubishi G4M Betty. — Revi publications, 2002. ISBN80-85957-09-4. Also: Goldstein, Donald M.; Katherine V. Dillon, and J. Michael Wenger (1991) The Way it Was: Pearl Harbor: The original photographs,
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0-08-040573-8. , p. 13.
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