Also used in China including Khalkhin Gol battles

-- and continued to be used in secondary roles in most WWII theatres including New Guinea and Solomons.

I've been doing a lot of reading about the New Guinea and Solomons battles and the G3M hasn't come up. Remember where they may have been based?

This one definitely served in New Guinea - and never left.

http://www.myaviation.net/search/pho...05&size=medium

I'm not sure that any squadron sized units were present after 1942 but the aircraft continued in common use for transport and secondary duties in most areas.

I do have a reference for a number of units being based at Rabaul in late 1942 equipped with the G3M3 type. Ref Aircam Aviation No 35. Prior to October the G3M2 type was based at Rabaul.

G3M2 type were used in the Battle of Coral Sea.
The same G3M2 type were used in the attacks on Force Z off Singapore.
http://www.myaviation.net/search/dis...005&ViD=middle

Interesting info! I didn't know anything about that.

Man! I wish there were good interior shots of that wreck. Even after 60 years on a tropical airfield, the pictures would probably be a heck of a lot better than the few black and white interior shots we've got of the Nell.

That is, unless there are actually blueprints, pilots/maintenance manuals or other technical documents which aren't available on the web.

Not much of the cockpit left unfortunately

http://en.tracesofwar.com/upload/1814110318125743.jpg

More pics here http://nl.tracesofwar.com/artikel/19...er-Gasmata.htm

A quick google search for "Gasmata g3m" will find more pics

The G3M2 type were involved in attacks against Guadalcanal, flying from Rabaul I guess, in autumn 42.

There are decent period pictures of the control panel and enough pictures of the pilots' and navigator's positions that it's possible to make some educated guesses. The picture you linked to gives a decent inside view of the frame around the cockpit.

Pictures I haven't seen are the interior of the gunners' and bombardier's stations.

G3m

Thanks for the graphics from FAOW.

Another good source of images for the Nell is here:

http://arawasi-wildeagles.blogspot.c...m-nell_20.html

There are some very nice pictures from a WW2 era Japanese magazine (Asahi Graph) which show unusual interior details.

Still not enough to really model the interior of the plane, but pretty close.

What's lacking are details of the ventral turret (or the "dustbin" turret in the early marks of the G3M1) and more detailed views of the interior of the various crew positions (notably the bombardier's station). Details of the wheel wells and the shackles for bombs and torpedoes would also be helpful.

Sorry for necroing this thread, but I found something that may be useful.

D3A2 (note that it is almost the same as D3A1, maybe not so hard to do the A2 variant?)
http://gunsight.jp/c/image2/type99cb-02s.jpg
B6N
http://gunsight.jp/c/image3/tenzan.jpg
D4Y
http://gunsight.jp/c/image3/suisei-12s.jpg

And many more cockpit drawings...
http://gunsight.jp/c/english/cockpit-e-3D.htm