The A6M made her maiden flight on April 1, 1939, and was officially introduced into operational service with the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service on July 1, 1940. The plane was manufactured by ...

The Mitsubishi A6M Zero became the only Japanese WWII fighter most people can name—but its reputation was built on very ...

The Zero endures as a symbol of Imperial Japan’s efficiency and menace. Imperial Japan’s most iconic piece of military hardware may well be the Mitsubishi A6M2 Zero, which at the time... What You Need ...

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It was an amazing sight in the skies over the Japanese island of Kyushu on Wednesday. That small airplane buzzing thousands of feet up was a Japanese Zero, once the most feared fighter plane in the ...

The restored World War II-era Mitsubishi A6M Zero fighter flies of Japan's Maritime Defense Force's Kanoya air base. Getty Images KANOYA, Japan — One of Mitsubishi’s legendary Zero fighter planes took ...

During the offset of the Pacific War, the Mitsubishi A6M Zero fighter reigned as the supreme fighter, uncontested by any American counterparts. This would be the case for the first years of the war, ...

These poignant words were spoken by 99-year-old Kaname Harada, a former Japanese fighter pilot, as he reflected on his country’s wartime past seven decades after two atomic bombs brought World War II ...

Mitsubishi s legendary Zero fighter flies during its test flight at an air station in Kanoya, Kagoshima prefecture, southern Japan, Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2016. The restored plane took to the skies over ...

The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor was spearheaded by one of the most dominant fighter planes in the Pacific: the ultra-light, extremely maneuverable Mitsubishi A6M "Zero." Vint Cerf of Google on the ...