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 ...

Japan began the Pacific War with two major technological advantages over the U.S. Navy: the much more reliable Long Lance torpedo, and the Mitsubishi A6M Zero carried-based fighter, a design that ...

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 ...

The opening of the air war over the Pacific was brutal. Allied pilots found themselves facing an enemy whose fighters ...

The Mitsubishi A6M Zero is probably the best-known military fighter used in WW2, but Kawasaki also made several aircraft for the conflict. Here are a few.

Kaname Harada, 99, a former Japanese fighter pilot, reflects on his country’s wartime past seven decades after two atomic bombs brought World War II to an end.

> Restored 83-Year-Old WW2 A6M3 Zero Fighter Flies Again. ... Mitsubishi A6M3 Model 22 Zero serial number 3489 on Taroa Island shortly before the Sterling team’s recovery operations.

Of the 10,000 A6Ms Mitsubishi ... The Mitsubishi A6M Zero Was ... to say the Grumman F6F Hellcat single-handedly gave the U.S. military air superiority over the Pacific Theater of World War II.