[N8 v2.0]

... Kates, Vals and several Zeros too....

 

[Frorider1]

HAHAHAHA Japs and their sneak attacks.

 

[N8 v2.0]

:mumble:

 

[valve bouncer]

Winning the war is over-rated.

 

[JRB]

It would be too sweet if they bombed you.

 

[SkaredShtles]

... Kates, Vals and several Zeros too....

That kicks ass! Are there any F4Us chasing them? Maybe Pappy Boyington's in one of them?

 

[N8 v2.0]

 

[Ciaran]

Effing awsome.

Post more pix N8.

 

[Westy]

I have a japanese guy sitting right in front of me coughing strange germs at me. He must be on the biological warfare front.

 

[N8 v2.0]

ZERO!!!!

 

[MikeD]

F'in chinpokomon!!!

MD

 

[Morryjg]

Actually - not a zero. If I remember correctly all remaining zeroes were destroyed after the war. Those are T-6's repainted.

 

[N8 v2.0]

"P-51!!! Cadillac of the SKY!!!!!

 

[maxyedor]

Wouldn't the P-51 be the mustang of they sky?

 

[Ciaran]

Wouldn't the P-51 be the mustang of they sky?

I love those planes.

 

[Wumpus]

Actually - not a zero. If I remember correctly all remaining zeroes were destroyed after the war. Those are T-6's repainted.

http://rwebs.net/ghostsqd/a6m2.htm

 

[DaveW]

Actually - not a zero. If I remember correctly all remaining zeroes were destroyed after the war. Those are T-6's repainted.

No a few were kept.... there are two original ones that I know of in museums in Auckland New Zealand one at the war memorial museum and anothe at the MOTAT museum.

Bound to be a few more around..... thay made thousands of them after all.

 

[DaveW]

According to wikipedia serveral survived and are in museums around the world.

 

[N8 v2.0]

Wouldn't the P-51 be the mustang of they sky?

Never saw the movie Empire of the Sun did ya...?

 

[valve bouncer]

According to wikipedia serveral survived and are in museums around the world.

Quite a few can also be found at the bottom of the Pacific.
Actually there's one in a museum near where I live.

 

[MikeD]

Was the Mustang used much in the Pacific theater? I would more expect a Marine F-4U or a P-38...

Must've been a neat show, tho.

MD

 

[narlus]

nice pics N8; did you step up and also purchase a D70?

 

[Skookum]

i wish my Outback had wings, i'd switch teams and turn traitor in a heartbeat.

BANZAI!!!!!!

 

[splat]

Actually - not a zero. If I remember correctly all remaining zeroes were destroyed after the war. Those are T-6's repainted.

Well , that is not totally true. the US destroyed all the Japanese "war" aircraft that they captured at teh end of the war. sine most Zero's were Carrier based , most of them went to the bottom of the pacific, when the US Scuttled the Japanese Fleet.

However those aircraft captured by Forces from New Zealand, Austrialia , China, etc. did with them how they pleased. as a matter of fact after the war most of China's air force was made up of captured Japanese aircraft , till they rebuilt.

 

[skinny mike]

Never saw the movie Empire of the Sun did ya...?

god i hate that movie.

 

[SkaredShtles]

Was the Mustang used much in the Pacific theater? I would more expect a Marine F-4U or a P-38...

It was used later in the Pacific campaign ('45). The F-4U was used quite a bit earlier. I don't think they ever used 51's on aircraft carriers, which might explain why it showed up so late in the war.