Each had a red fuselage stripe indicating it came from the aircraft carrier Akagi. As escorts, they were high above and to the left of 26 Aichi D3A1 dive bombers from Shokaku headed for Ford ...

At 0753 hours the first wave consisting of 40 Nakajima B5N2 "Kate" torpedo bombers, 51 Aichi D3A1 "Val" dive bombers, 50 high altitude bombers and 43 Zeros struck airfields and Pearl Harbor Within ...

The types spanned the gamut from older combat models like the Aichi D3A1 "Val" and Nakajima B5N2 "Kate" (Japan's warplanes were assigned code names by the Allies) up to modern fighters like the ...

D3A1 Aichi Japanese Bomber The D3A1 Aichi (codename "val") was a World War II dive bomber produced by the Aichi company in Japan. It was the ...

As escorts, they were high above and to the left of 26 Aichi D3A1 dive bombers from Shokaku headed for Ford Island’s naval air station, in the midst of Pearl Harbor and neighboring Hickam Field.

As escorts, they were high above and to the left of 26 Aichi D3A1 dive bombers from Shokaku headed for Ford Island's naval air station, in the midst of Pearl Harbor and neighboring Hickam Field.