Banco de dados da Segunda Guerra Mundial (WW2DB)

1.  Bill says:
12 Oct 2011 07:53:42 PM

The G6M1 was an unsuccessful escort fighter it carried no bombs, but was armed w/4x20mm cannons and 7.7mm machine guns.
Of interest is the ventral blister some G6M1 fighters were fitted with a forward firing 30mm cannon. This aircraft is a development prototype assigned to the Naval Technical
Arsenal 30 G6M1s were built.
Aircraft looks like its in a overall natural metal finish with black anti-glare forward of cockpit and on inside of engine cowls aircraft lacks its propeller spinners

2.  Bill says:
13 Oct 2011 11:16:36 AM

During WWII the USAAF modified twenty B-17s into YB-40 escorts.
The aircraft were heavily armed with extra fifty caliber machine guns and carried 11,000
rounds of ammo, like the Japanese G6M1 they
couldn't keep up with the other bombers, once the group dropped their bombs, because of extra weight in guns, ammo and fuel.

With the arrival of long-range fighters like the P-47 Thunderbolt and the P-51 Mustang, made the YB-40 obsolete.
I don't know the amount of ammo, the G6M1 carried, but it must have been thousands of rounds of ammo, to protect itself and the bombers. Surviving G6M1s were rebuilt into G6M1-K Trainers and G6M1-L2 Transports.

3.  Bill says:
15 Oct 2011 02:15:06 PM

The G6M1 escort fighters were built at the Mitsubishi plant at Nagoya. Ko-G6-6, s/n 706
was the 6th airframe built, shown in above photo. Aircraft was natural metal w/red tail and white letters and numbers.
Assigned to Naval Technical Arsenal operated
with Takao Kokutai, Yokosuka, Japan.
Unit later operated from Takao, Formosa what
is now Taiwan 1940.