Type 96, G3M, Nell(96式陸上攻擊機) was the realization of Imperial Japan Navy land-based, long range aviation strike force during 1930s against numerical superior of the rival US Navy Pacific Fleet.
On Aug 14-16, 1937, IJNAF Kanoya Kokutai, then stationed at Matsuyama Airfield, Taihoku(Now Song Shan Airport, Taipei, Taiwan, ICAO code: RCSS), and Kisarazu Kokutai, then stationed at Omura, Kyushu, Japan, launched the very first long range trans-oceanic bombing campaign(渡洋爆擊) in history against the ground targets of Chiang Kai-Shek's Nan King Regime in Eastern China by their Type 96 Model 1 fleet.
This Type 96 Model 2(G3M2 Model 22) 3D model is exclusively made for the book "Raid Formosa, Thanksgiving, 1943 to V-J Day"(空襲福爾摩沙, 1943 感恩節- 1945/08/15), schedule to be published in Winter 2009, by Samuel Chiou and Wen-Yen Chung. The book will provide the detailed reviews of USAAF and US Navy air campaign, intelligence gathering and analysis, Psy Ops towarded then Japan colony Formosa(Now Taiwan) during WWII. #96式陸攻 #IJNAF_Type_96 #Mitsubishi_G3M #Mitsubishi_Type_96 #Nell #Type_96_LandBased_Bomber
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