Kawasaki Ki-32

The Kawasaki Ki-32, officially the Army Type 98 Single-engine Light Bomber and called Mary by the Allies, was a Japanese light bomber of the Second World War. It was a single-engine, two-seat, mid-wing monoplane with a fixed tailwheel undercarriage and an internal bay for a 300 kg bomb load. It was built to a 1936 Army specification to replace the Kawasaki Ki-3 and competed against the Mitsubishi Ki-30, differing mainly in having a liquid-cooled inline V12 engine against the Mitsubishi radial. Engine cooling problems cost it the first production order, but wartime need in the Second Sino-Japanese War brought it into production in 1938, and Kawasaki built 854 before production ended in May 1940. It fought in China, at Nomonhan and in Hong Kong before being moved to training in 1942.