The A6M Zero was once the most feared fighter in the Pacific - light, fast, and deadly. This Kings and Generals documentary traces its stunning rise and eventual downfall during WWII. As Allied ...

A Mitsubishi A6M2 Zero fighter at the NACA Langley Reserch Center in Hampton Virginia (USA), in March 1943. This plane had been captured at Akutan Island, Alaska, in August 1942.

The Messerschmitt Bf 109 and the Mitsubishi A6M Zero are remembered as the Axis forces primary fighters in World War 2. Both served from the start of the war until its end.

The A6M Zero was designed in 1937 as a replacement for the A5M. Contrary to many movie portrayals, it was the A5M (aka Type 96) that participated in Japan’s initial invasion of China.

What You Need to Know: Japan’s Mitsubishi A6M Zero fighter dominated the skies over the Pacific early in World War II, achieving a 12-to-1 kill ratio.This carrier-based warplane, known for its ...

Alaska history: The Mitsubishi A6M Zero crashed into a bog on Akutan Island, ... Too late, he realized that the smooth green field was, in fact, a bog.

The Flying Heritage Collection’s Mitsubishi Zero has a three-line designation or identification block stenciled on the rear left side of its fuselage. Streaks of dark green ... A6M Zero, it was ...

The Hellcat's shoot-down-to-loss ratio was a staggering 19:1, accounting for three-quarters of the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps air-to-air shootdowns against Imperial Japan.

What You Need to Know: Japan’s Mitsubishi A6M Zero fighter dominated the skies over the Pacific early in World War II, achieving a 12-to-1 kill ratio.

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 ...

KANOYA, Japan — One of Mitsubishi’s legendary Zero fighter planes took to the skies over Japan on Wednesday for the first time since World War II. The restored plane made a brief flight to an… ...