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Mitsubishi Zero (Hardcover)
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Mitsubishi Zero (Hardcover)
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The Mitsubishi Zero is one of the great legendary fighter aircraft
ever to have graced the skies. Symbolic of the might of Imperial
Japan, she represented a peak of developmental prowess in the field
of aviation during the early years of the Second World War.
Engineered with manoeuvrability in mind, this light-weight,
stripped-back aircraft had a performance that left her opponents
totally outclassed. The dogfights she engaged in with the Chinese,
British, Dutch and American warplanes in the 1941-42 period are the
stuff of aviation legend. The Zero fighter had four major assets -
agility, long-range, experienced and war-blooded pilots and, most
importantly of all, a total inability of the Allies, particularly
in the Pacific Theatre of operations, to believe that Japan could
produce such a machine. Despite a whole series of eyewitness
reports from China, where she had swept the skies clean of all
opposition, western minds were closed, and remained so until the
brutal facts imposed themselves on their biased mindsets. All
aircraft designs are a compromise of course, and the Zero had
faults as well as strengths, two of which were to finally doom her;
one was her lack of armour protection and the other was the
inability of the Japanese to match the overwhelming production
strength and innovation of Allied aircraft construction. Even so,
she remained a potent threat until the end of the war, not least in
her final role, that of a Kamikaze aircraft, in which she created
as much havoc on the sea as she had done earlier in the air. Peter
C. Smith takes the reader on a journey from inspired inception to
the blazing termination of this unique aircraft, the first Naval
fighter to be superior to land-based aircraft. It describes in
detail the many victories that punctuated the early days of its
operational career as well as the desperate dying days of the
Second World War which witnessed her final demise. Smith also lists
the preserved Zero aircraft on display today. This is a fast-paced
and fascinating history of a fighter aircraft like no other.
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