Described in the original WW2 code lists as the Type 97 Floatplane, later as a Kawasaki Type 97 fighter, the allied name ‘Bob’ was dropped early in 1943.
Its original assignment was a so-called Aichi Type 97, in reality a mis-identified Nakajima E2N Type 15 of the 1920s, an obsolete type.
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