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The Mitsubishi Ki-51 (Army designation "Type 99 Assault Plane". Allied nickname "Sonia") was a light bomber/dive bomber in service with the Imperial Japanese Army during WW II. It first flew in mid-1939. Initially deployed against Chinese forces, it proved to be too slow to hold up against the fighter aircraft of the other Allied powers. However, it performed a useful ground-attack role in the China-Burma-India theatre, notably from airfields too rough for many other aircraft. As the war drew to a close, they began to be used in Kamikanze attacks. Total production was around 2,385 units.

On the day Hiroshima was destroyed by an atomic bomb two Ki-51s scored the last Japanese victory against US submarines, and of which is confirmed as the 52nd USN submarine lost during the war; essentially, she would have been second to last, as USS Halibut (SS-232) was irreparably damaged in action months before Bullhead was lost, and was decommissioned in early 1945. Two depth charges hit USS Bullhead (SS-332), in which she later exploded and sank with all hands.

Charles Lindbergh, flying a P-38 Lighting shot down a Ki-51 after a vigorous dogfight in which the much slower Ki-51 utilized its low speed maneuverability and made a fight of it.

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Assault Plane, 1st Squadron, 27th Flight Regiment, Kuala Lumpur, 1942.
Tactical Recon Plane, Unknown Unit, New Guinea, 1944.
Tactical Recon Plane, 2nd squadron (Originally 89th Independent Flight Squadron), 38th Flight Regiment, Borneo, 1945.

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