Recognition of the Japanese Zero Fighter with Ronald Reagan -1943

Lieutenant Jimmy Saunders (Ronald Reagan) learns how to tell a US P-40 from a Japanese A6M Zero fighter the hard way. (That’s a very angry Craig Stevens aka “Peter Gunn“ on the receiving end.) Contains plenty of interesting info about what US pilots were told about Japan’s most produced and feared fighter and how to spot it. Includes rare footage of a captured Zero doing spectacular aerobatics. I digitally restored the audio & video tracks. Zeno, Zeno’s Warbird Videos, See this film full screen on our F6F DVD, with 4 more videos & F6F pilot’s manual : The Mitsubishi A6M Zero was a long-range fighter aircraft was in service in the Imperial Japanese Navy from 1940 to 1945. It was designated as the Mitsubishi Navy Type 0 Carrier Fighter (零式艦上戦闘機 rei-shiki-kanjou-sentouki?), and also designated as the Mitsubishi A6M Rei-sen and Mitsubishi Navy 12-shi Carrier Fighter. The A6M was usually referred to by the Allies as the “Zero“, from 1940, the year in which th
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