Since I'm waiting for paint to dry on the C-123 I thought I would work on what scheme to paint the Betty. I had read that G4M's were part of the attack on the Prince of Wales and the Repulse, I researched that for awhile, and found that the first paint scheme in the Tamiya instructions was for an airplane from the Kanoya Air Group that was part of the attack, flown by Lt. Haruki Iki. Iki survived the war and I found an interview with him about the attack. Another account is in a book by Jeffrey Cox, "Rising Sun, Falling Skies", which I liked well enough to buy.
Still another resource about the attack is from an interrogation transcript of Captain Kameo Sonokawa, commander of the Genzan Air Group, also part of the attack. The interrogation was in November 1945 during the US Occupation of Japan.
I have made a pdf of an excerpt from the Cox book, listed first, and of the interrogation transcript listed second. Details of the Cox book are included, it is available as an eBook from Google Books for $10.00.
http://goldeneramodel.com/mymodels/g4m/1g4m/IkiAttackonRepulse.pdf
http://goldeneramodel.com/mymodels/g4m/1g4m/InterviewJavaSea.pdf
I found the book's detailed account of the attack on the Repulse (as well of that of the Prince of Wales) to be riveting reading.
Here's the paint scheme for K-310, Iki's Betty:
Haruki Iki:
G4M1's of the Kanoya Air Group. I find it hard to see camouflage demarcations in the black and white photo. It might be from a later date, or the colors are lost in the shadows. The Air Group was based near Saigon at the time of the attack and had undergone extensive torpedo attack training in the time leading up to the attack.
