Most living Americans tend to think of the Mitsubishi A6M Zero as the Japanese plane that walloped the Americans at Pearl Harbor. Okay, well, it did do that. But it wasn't the fearsome fighter that ...

May 6, 1944 marked the first flight of the Mitsubishi A7M Reppū, a carrier-based fighter designed to replace the legendary ...

The Hellcat’s forgiving flight characteristics and durability allowed less experienced pilots to survive early engagements and gain greater experience against the Japanese Mitsubishi A6M Zero. The ...

It'd be a little bit of hyperbole to say the Grumman F6F Hellcat single-handedly gave the U.S. military air superiority over the Pacific Theater of World War II. The Vought F4U Corsair played a huge ...

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Salvaged from the Papua New Guinean jungle, a restored World War 2 Japanese Zero fighter has taken to the skies over the land that gave birth to the once-feared warplane. Japanese pilot Kazuaki ...

Here’s What You Need To Remember: The Wildcat never exceeded the Zero in performance, but over time the non-existent armor protection and loss of entire carriers took a heavy toll on Japanese aviators ...