EAW - Imperial Japanese Navy Nakajima B6N2 "Jill" torpedo bomber from 653 Naval Air Group (NAG or Kokutai), Second Battle of the Philippine Sea Oct, 1944 on board the carrier Zuikaku. 

The B6N2 was designed to replace the B5N2 Kate torpedo bomber on board Japanese carriers. It had a protracted development period because of engine troubles, and did not begin replacing the Kates until 1944. Most IJN carrier air groups had the Jill as their standard torpedo bomber in time for the battles around the Marianas and Philippines in 1944. After that, the Japanese did not have any carriers operational and so the Jill became a land based aircraft operating from Okinawa and Japan proper. In addition to carrying torpedoes, many were used as bombers as well as kamikaze aircraft.

I developed this model from the PAW1942 Kate 3DZ. It is for use in the JU88A slot, and has a flight file made by Charles Gunst. There is an additional skin choice for the 752 NAG, which was a "special attack" (meaning kamikaze operations) group based in Japan in 1945.

To use place the *.3DZ, *.tpc, and JU88A files in your EAW folder. Do not open ECAPanel after placing the JU88A file in your folder or it will over write the data on the file.

Cheers

Captain Kurt
July 2004 