Here's the answer;
There were 487 of these machines built . The picture and 3 Views is of a captured L2D3, the most of the variants -- L2D2, 3, and 4 -- built. The machines were built in 1940-44, 71 being built by Nakajima, and 416 by Showa, in the Empire of the Rising Sun.
They did create some very bad times as they hauled troops and cargo around the empire during WWII as
most fighters ignored those "DC-3s"
BTW the L2D3 had 1300 HP Kensi 51 radials and was a bit higher in performance than the DC-3. Allied Code name, "Tabby"
Thanks to Rene Francillon's
Japanese Aircraft of the Pacific War US Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, MD for these tidbits of information.
