Kawasaki Ki-48
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The Kawasaki Ki-48, is a Japanese twin-engine light bomber that was used during World War II. Its Allied reporting name was "Lily".
Kawasaki Ki-48
Kawasaki Ki-48 after Japanese surrender
A modified Ki-48 with a Ne-0 turbojet under the bomb bay during testing
Kawasaki Ki-48 on display in ‘Victory Park’, Museum of the Great Patriotic War, Poklonnaya Hill, Moscow, Russia.
Light bomber
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A light bomber is a relatively small and fast type of military bomber aircraft that was primarily employed before the 1950s. Such aircraft would typically not carry more than one ton of ordnance.
Circa 1937. The single-engine PZL.23 Karaś was the main light bomber used by Polish forces at the beginning of World War II.
1943. A twin-engine Lockheed Hudson of No. 2 Squadron RAAF. Its crew and ground staff pose for the photographer, prior to loading the Hudson with its bomb load in the foreground.
An Albatros C.III of the German Luftstreitkräfte, circa 1916. While it was designed as an "armed reconnaissance" type, the C.III was also a light bomber of World War I.
1937. Turkish air force pilot Sabiha Gökçen inspects her Breguet 19 as it is loaded with bombs.