Nope, E14Y "Glen" monoplane.
The only enemy aircraft to bomb the continental US, well, ever...
That mission did have one unintended small victory for Japan. It forced the US Army to hold fighter assets on the West Coast for home defense, rather than deploying them to the Pacific, at least for a short time.
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Personally speaking, the P-40 could contend on an equal footing with all the types of Messerschmitts, almost to the end of 1943.
~Nikolay Gerasimovitch Golodnikov
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