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1997 Joao Paulo Juliao Matsuura
Douglas L2D
Allied Code Name: "Tabby"
(Scanned from René J. Francillion "Japanese Aircraft of the Pacific War" - Putnam - 1979)
UNITS ALLOCATED
Southern Phillipines Kokutai. Squadrons (Butais) attached to the 3rd, 4th, 6th, 11th, 12th, 13th and 14th Air Fleets (Koku Kantais), to the Combined Fleet (Rengo Kantai) and to the China Area and Southwest Area Fleets.
TECHNICAL DATA
Description: Twin-engined personnel and cargo transport. All-metal construction with fabric-covered control surfaces (L2D1 to L2D4-1) or light alloy, steel and wood construction (L2D5).
Accommodation: Crew of three to five, and either 21 passengers (L2D1 to L2D5) or 4,500 kg of freight (L2D2-1 to L2D4-1).
- Two Pratt & Whitney SB3G fourteen-cylinder air-cooled radials, rated at 1,000 hp for take-off, driving three-blade metal propellers (L2D1).
- Two Mitsubishi Kinsei 43 fourteen-cylinder air-cooled radials, rated at 1,000 hp for take-off and 1,080 hp at 2,000 m, driving three-blade metal propellers (L2D2 and L2D2-1).
- Two Mitsubishi Kinsei 51 fourteen-cylinder air-cooled radials, rated at 1,300 hp for take-off and 1,200 hp at 3,000 m, driving three-blade metal propellers (L2D3, L2D3-1, L2D4 and L2D4-1).
- Two Mitsubishi Kinsei 53 fourteen-cylinder air-cooled radials, rated at 1,300 hp for take-off and 1,200 hp at 3,000 m, driving three-blade metal propellers (L2D3a and L2D3-1a).
- Two Mitsubishi Kinsei 62 fourteen-cylinder air-cooled radials, rated at 1,560 hp for take-off and 1,340 hp at 2,100 m, driving three-blade metal propellers (L2D5).
- One flexible 13 mm Type 2 machine-gun and two 7.7 mm Type 92 machine-guns (L2D4, L2D4-1 and L2D5).
