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6 Oct 2011 07:47:25 PM
Formation of unidentified G4M "Betty" bombers
could belong to any Kokutai of the IJNAF.
The Betty was the spearhead of the Imperial
Navys land-based bomber units.
On December 10, 1941 Mitsubishi G3M "Nell" &
G4M "Betty" Bombers of the 22nd Air Flotilla
attacked and sunk two British capitol ships
the battleship Prince of Wales and the older
battlecruiser Repulse off the coast of Malaya