Mitsubishi G4M Betty Bomber Footage (1944)

[Lancero99]

View: https://youtu.be/mOpNRsLZUBU?si=Wi02l3vLLrJOmSc7

Japanese Newsreel footage of Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service Mitsubishi G4M1 Model 11 "Betty" bombers of the 732nd Kōkūtai (Naval Air Group) conducting mock attack runs on IJN ships

This footage was shot on March 19, 1944 and released in a Japanese produced newsreel intended for consumption in the Japanese-occupied Dutch East Indies (modern day Indonesia)

 

[pinehilljoe]

Is that a Nagara or Kuma Class CL they are making runs on?

 

[Gnomey]

Good one!

 

[Maxrobot1]

The Lewis guns of the waist and tail gunner do not have the magazines on them.

 

[taly01]

Very interesting for aficionado's of G4M with many different sub variants shown!