Yokosuka (3 × prototype only) Nakajima Kawanishi (P1Y2 series only)
First flight
August 1943
Introduction
October 1944[1]
Retired
1945
Primary user
Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service
Number built
1,102
The Yokosuka P1Y Ginga (銀河, "Galaxy") was a twin-engine, land-based bomber developed for the Japanese Imperial Navy in World War II. It was the successor to the Mitsubishi G4M and given the Allied reporting name "Frances".
^Norman Polmar, Thomas B. Allen, World War II: America at war, 1941–1945, Random House, 1991, p. 310.
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