Early in World War Two, American fliers thought they were facing a “wonder weapon,” in the Pacific: Japan’s A6M2 Zero, the main fighter plane of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN). It flew rings around the Brewster Buffalo’s, the Bell P-39′s, and (to a lesser extent) the Grumman F4F Wildcats. The Zero pilots were superb; their [...]
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