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Mitsubishi A6m1 2 Zero Senes 016
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Mitsubishi A6M2 Type 0 Carrier Fighter, Model 21 .
I - 1st Carrier 'Akagi' , A= 1st Cerrier Division.
Peerl Harbour Attack. Decomber 8th 1941 (Japanese
rim a) .
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Mitsublsh i A,6M2 Type a Carrier Fighler, Model 2' .
Aifcrafl Carrier 'Akag i', Pearl Habour Attack. Decem·
ber 8th 1941.
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Mit subis hl ASM2 Type 0 Calrier Fighter, Model 21,
n"" 2nd Cllrlier 'Kaga', A=lst Carrier Division,
Pearl Hnbour Attack, December 8th 194"
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Mrtsubishi A6M2 Type 0 Ca rrier Fighter, Model 21 .
r = 151 Carrie r 'Soryu ', B = 2nd Carriel Division,
Pearl Harbour Attack, December Sih 1941 .
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M il subishi A6M2 Type 0 Carrier Fig hte r, Modol 21 .
1 : 1st CaHiur 'Shokaku', E __ 5th Carrie' Division,
Pen rl Harbour Attack, December STh 194 1.
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Mltsu bishi AGM2 Type 0 Ceffie, FighTer. Model 21 .
= Si n Carr lor D I.... ,sion.
II = 2nd Cai ne. 'Zulkaku', E
Pearl Harbour Attad:, December 8th 1941.
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M I15U bishi A6M2 Tvpa 0 Carrier Fig hter. Model 21.
1 = 15\ Carrier ' Yliwalame,u', C = 3 1d Calfier DIVISion.
Solomon Islands, July 1942. n us {;arr ial was sub·
seque ntly 'e-named ' Unyo' in A ugu st 1942 .
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Mitsubishi AGM2 Type 0 Carrier FighTer. M odel 21.
U = 2nd CaUier 'Kasu(Jem l'llu', C = 3rd Ca rrier
Division. Southern Pacilic AreA, July 1942. ThiS
COlTier was subsequently ,e· n:Jmcd 'Taiyo' In
August 1942.
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Mitsubishi A6M2 Type 0 Camer Fighter, Model 21 .
U= 2nd Carrier 'Zuikaku', 1:= 1 51 Can isr Division .
Southern Pacific Arel, October 1942.
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Milsubish i A6M2 Typo 0 Carrier Fighter, Model 21.
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Air cra ft Carrier 'Zuiho', Sou l hern Pac ifiC A rea.
Octo ber 1942.
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Mitsubishl A6M2 Type 0 Cerrier Fighter, M odel 21 .
1= 1 51 Cafflor 'S hokAku', I = lSI Carrier Divisio n,
Sout hern Pacific Operations. October 1942.
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Mitsubishi A6M2 TVpo 0 Carrier Fighter, Model 21 ,
L = 1st Carrier 'Shokllku', /II.. = lsi CArrier Division,
Aabaul, 3rd Opormion, November 1942.
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Milsubishi A6M2 Tvpe 0 Carrier Fig hter, Mode l 21 .
Trai ni ng A lrcrah Can ier possibly ' Hosho' Summer
1943.
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Milsu blsni A6M2 Type 0 Carrier f ighter, Model 21.
3rd Air Corps. Aabau t, Au gust 1942 .
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Mitsu bishi A6M2 Type 0 Canier Fig hte r, Modol 21.
3td Air Corps. Ke ndall. Celebes. March 194 2.
Note 11 victory chrysanthe mum blossoms on f in.
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M ltsubishi A6M2 Type 0 Carrier Fig htvr, Model 21 .
6th Air Corps. New Guinea. April-October 1942.
Rabaul. New Brite in, November 1942. Unit re·
formed in November 1942 as the 2041h Air Corps.
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Mitsublshl A6M2 Type 0 Camer Fighter. Model 21.
6th Air Corps, New Guinea, Apfl l-October 1942.
3
M ilsu bishi A6M2 Tvpe 0 CalTier f ighter, M odel 21
6th Air Corp,. New Guinea. April-October 1942.
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M ltllu bisni A6M 2 Type 0 Carrier Fi ghter. M odErI 2,.
Oila Air Corps. Opo rationa l Trai ninJ;l U ni t , Mar ch
1944 .
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M ilsubishl A6M2 Tvpe 0 Carrier Flght"'l . M ode l 21 .
Ka surniga urJ A ir Corps Primary and Trans il ional
Training, Operati o nal Training Uni,. 1943-44 .
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M/tsubishi A6M2 TVPIt 0 Canler Fi ghter. M Odel 21
Kono lke AI' Corps. Gunnery Traini ng Schoo!.
Februarv 1944
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Milsublshi ASM 2 Type 0 Carr iel Fighter, Model 2 1.
Tsukuba Air Corps, Opera tional Tl alnlng Un it,
OCIOOOI 1943.
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Sasebo A6M2-K Type 17 Trainel Fighter, M od el 12.
Tok.ushima Air Corps, Okinewa. Sprmg 1 945.
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Sasebo AGM2- K Type 17 Trainer F.ghter, Mudel 12.
T!luku ba Au Corps. Opertllio nal T,a101II9 Unit
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nuaIY 1944.
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S8sebo A6M2-K Type 17 Trainer Fighter. Model 12.
302nd Atl Corps. Alsugi, Kanagawil and Honshu.
F=;;;::+;;:;p'~~o;:;;~"~rt'y 1945.
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Sasebo A6M2-K Type 17 Trainer Fighter, Model 12.
T81nll0 Air Corps. Transillonal Training Unit.
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Sasebo A6M2 - K Type 17 Traine r Fighter, Model 12 .
Genzan Ai, Corps. Fall 1944.
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Nakajima A6M2 - N Tvpe 2 Fighter Sea plane, Model 11 . 5th Air Corps,
ChOStln (Korea), A.ugust 1942. In November 1942 I hi, unit became
the 452nd Air COlpS.
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Nakajima A6M2- N Type 2 Fig hter Seaplane. M odoll1 Toka Air COfPS.
Allu Island, Aleut ians. Octobeor 1942.
AIRCAM AV IAT IO N SERIES No.16
(VOL. 1)
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M ltsubishl A6M2 Type 0 Carner Fig hter, Model 21 . Aircraft Ca rrier Kaga.
Pearl Harbour Auac k. 8ch December 1941 Sta ndard pale grey sche me w ith
red fuselage bands
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IN JAPANISI NAVAL AIR SIRVICI
ACKNOW LED mMENTS
ThiS book. the first of two volumes covering the most fa mous
fighter type operated by the Japanese Naval Air Service durtng
Compiled & written by World War II containS the largest select lun of colour side view
illustraltons . photographs and data published to date Volume Two
Richard M. Bueschel w ill cover the later Types 0 the same high standard. Thanks are due
to all those who assisted With matenal and information whose names
are listed in alphabetical order below ;
Shorzoe Abe. Hideya Ando . Koku Asahi. Asahlgraph . Peter M .
Bowers J. D Canary. J Earl Capron. Fred C Dickey J r . John Ford
Illustrated by Flving A ces. Hlko \Jippon. Hlko Shonen. Noboru Jyoko Koku Fan.
Koku S onen . Knku ishik,. Dr. Hldemusa Kimura. AI Schm idt.
Richard Ward Peter Selinger. Sora . Sekal no Koku i Shashln Shuho. Seiso
Tach lbana . M Toda. Umi to Sorya. Warren E. Woolman. Aus tra lian
War Memoria l. IWM. Impertal Navy. USAF. USN .
successful beyond the wildest dreams of the jNAF planners. with thei r engines ticking over. The fantastic audacity of the
By the summer of '940 the war had mm-ed so far inland that Japanese carried them through, and in spite of a wilhering
the Imperial Navy's heaviest G3M2 bombers had to attack ground fire they damaged some ai rcraft and gOt away while
a well-defended Chungking without fighter escort due to the their comrades in the air pinned the defenders down with
long ranges . Arrival of the Reisens changed the picture a constant series of strafIn g runs. In the heat of action the
completely. Flying m.issions of over 1,000 miles round-trip, srupidiry of the move was ignored . Had only one of the pilots
Lieutenant Yokoyama led his sq uadron of t 2- Shi fighters over received a minor wound, or been killed, the Chinese at
Chungking on an escort mission on August 19, 1940 with Chengtu would h ave been left with a newly-produced
Lieutenant Shindo following w ith his squad ron the next day. Zero-Sen prototype. Convenientl y, Chengru was also the
T he defending Chinese fighters odd ly remained our of sigh t main experimental and aircraft evaluation base of the Chinese
and the disappointed japanese pilots rerurned to their base Air Force.
wiiliou[ the t3ste of battlc. "rhe earli er Ch.inese tactl cs had Perhaps the most disappointed man of all was Claire L ee
consisted of diving passes at sitting-du ck bom bers. With the Chennault, an American adviser to Chinese leader Chiang
arri val of the new japanese fighters, the Chinese held back Kai-Shek, and commander of the Chinese Air Force .
and avoided com bat. Chennault had been collecting data on the Zero-Sen since its
It wasn't until 3lmost a month later, on Septcmber 13, that fi rst appearance over Chungking late in August, and was
the Zero- Sen dtew first blood . Pretend ing to lea ve the targe t vainly trying to learn its secret to develop counter-tactics.
area with the bombers, the Japanese fighters under command With the Chengtu opporrunity missed, all he could do was
of L ieutenant Saburo Sbindo and Sub-Lieutenant Ayao watch helplessly as the m onths rolled by and his demoralized
Shirane suddenly turned ar ound and came back over Ch un- Chinese pi lots fe U one by one before the guns and cannon of
king about thirty minutes later. Diving out of the sun into a the A6M2. T he commando-like raid on Chengru also had a
sk-y crowded with Chinese fighters, the j apanese shot down profound effect on the Chinese, generating a defeatist
27 Polikarpov 1-1 5his and r- 16 and Curtiss H awk fIr attit ude that further cut the efficiency of the Chinese Air
fighters in hal f-an-hour. The first Zero-Set! "ace" cam e out Force. When ZerO-SellS and AS I'v\4 96 Kansen fighters of a
of this single banle, when Petry OffIcer Koshiro Yamashita detached unit of the 12th Combined Air Corps began to raid
shot down five of the Russian-built Chinese fighters. Yama- the Ch inese training base at K unming from the new Japanese
shita later went on to become one of the ranking JNAF aces airfields in occupied French Indo-China in October, the
of the Pacific War wi th a confi m led score of nine kills and an spiri t of the Chinese Air Force was broken, and the Japanese
unofficial rating of over ten. The t2th Combined Air Corps gained full command of the air over central and southern
fighters had gained a m a jor victory without loss to themselves . China . By the end of '940 the JNAF had used somewhat over
Thcn combat got s p~lrse again, and Chinese aircraft stayed a hundred 12-Sh i, M odel I I and M odel 2 1 Zero-Sms aver
out of the ir way. Ranging deep into Ch ina, the Japanese China and reportedly shot down 59 Chinese aircraft wh ile
fighters gained proficiency and searched vainly for targe ts. destroying tOI others. Through out the fighting not a single
Psychologically the japanese fe lt invincible, and their Zem-Sen fighter was lost.
[Tusrration at being unable to engage in aerial com bat made As the fighting tapered dOV·iD in China, the Zero-Sen still
itself shown in various ways. In a raid against Chengtll on held its record of superiori ty over its foe . Virtuall y alone in
October 4, four of the japanese Zero-Scm in a fl ight led by Chinese skies throughout t941 while the Jl':AF reorganized
Superior P eny Officer I chire Higashiyama acruall y landed its forces to be prepared in the event of a Pacific War, the
on the Chinese airfield and the pilots attempted to blow up Zero-Sens reportedly shot down an additional 45 Chinese
the aircra ft while their A6M 2's sat at the edge of the fie ld planes while destroying or damag ing 62 others on the ground
Model 11 Rersen r\lo. 16301 Ihe 1 2rh Comb rner1 Air Co rps over Hankow. Chrna. late 194 0 (S ekar no Kokuki)
Air Auache in London . Genda was himself a former 96
Kansen fighter pilot with combat experience in China. He
had a philosophy of lactical lighter application similar to
Chennault's in China, that of massed fighter use over combat
areas to gain tmal air control, thereby permitting bombing
or other air, sea or ground actions with impunity,
Genda's two year s in London, anll hi::, return LO japan in
1941 during the carrier conversions when A6M2 fighters
replaced the open-cockpil and fixed-gear ASM4, had a
profound effect on the first combat use of the carrier-based
A6M2 and the coming of the Pacific War. When the daring
plan to attack Pearl Harbour, conceived in January 1941 by
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, C-in-C of the Imperial Navy,
was first laid out befo re Rear Admiral Takijiro Onishi,
Chief of Staff of the I tlh Ai r Fleel, Onishi asked Genda's
opinion. Genda stud ied the concept in detail, and provided
Kept secret lor well over i'I yea r of comba t se rvi ce. IhlS frr st "p ubli c"
Onishi with a length y reporr on the feasibi lity of th e attack,
photograph of the A6M2 was released to the Japanese press stressing the use of all six fleet carriers, competen t com-
immediately a: ter the Pearl ! l arbor Attack (Koku Asahi) manders and e"perienced pilots. By the sununer of 1941 the
atta,ck plans moved from the feasible to the actual, and
by the end of Septem ber 194 1. In one raid on Cbengru on Zero-Sen carrier training was increased .
March 14, they sbol duwn 24 Chinese ai rcraft plus three Following the commissioning of the carriers Shokaku and
probables. A raid on Chengtu by J NAF heavy bombers on Zuikaku in August 1941, the first clements of Zero-Sens were
May 20 was escorled by thirty A6M2' s. It wa, during this already flying from their decks in September. ·Combat-
raid that the first Zero-Sen was lost in combat, with Superior trained pilots from the 12th Combined Air Corps flying
Petty Officer Kimura's A6M2 crashing as a resull uf gruund Model 21'S in China were brought back to Japan and re-
fire. By Septembe r, only one other A6M2 had been lost, also assigned to the carriers on account of their invaluable
to ground fire. Thousands of miles away from their hume, experience. Lieutenant Ayao Shirane was assigned to the
the japanese owned th e skies over China. Zuikaku. Lieutcnant Fusata lida, an " ace" with 7 kills, went
It seemed that only a miracle could ever shoot a japanese to the S nryu. L ieutenant Commander Shigeru Itaya, also an
aircraft down in Ch ina agai n-but even that was created by " acc", became the fighter commander of the Akagi. Now a
the Zero- Sen,. To combat the malaise that had taken h uld in COInmande r, Minoru Genda became the Operations Officer
the Chinese Air Force afte r the attack on Chengtu in October to Vice-Admiral Chuichi Naguma and was assigned to the
1940, Gcneralissimo Chiang Kai-Shek called in Chennaull 1st Air F leet on the Aka!?;, the flagship of th e Pearl Harhour
and proposed th e idea of a mercenary force of Anlerican pilots attack force. h was during the first week in November 1941,
flying m odem American planes in the defense of China. The in th e weapons room of the carrier, that Genda first unveiled
idea took hold, a ircraft were made available, and the American a scalc m odel of Pearl Harbour and begao to go over the
Volunteer Group (A.V.G .) was formed. In a little over a year specific details of the forthcoming attack with the conunanders
the A.V .G , was demonstrating the combat deficiencies of the of the various aircraft elements assigned to the six carriers.
Reisen in Chinese skies. Wllile the carrier forces were being trained for their water-
based mission, a number of land-based Air Corps of the J NAF
In Fleet Service also began 10 receive the A6M2 in numbers. With the prime
military objectives of war in the Pacific the oil and raw
As the Zero-Sen made its backwards introduction into service materials of the DUlch Indies, reached by way of the Philip-
as a land fighter, the weapons system that would conquer pines and Malaya, arrangements were made for anacks to
more global mass in six m onths than aoy army in history was coincide with the raid on Hawaii. In a plan so ambitious it
being developed : the A6M2 Model 21 and the F leet Carrier . almost defies belief, re-equipping and training for simul-
At the time the 1\6M2 was accepted for productiun as a taneous atlacks on all fronts got underway in the fall of 194 I.
carrier fighter in the summer of 1940, following successful I SI Class Petty Officer Teimei Akamatsu, third ranking
trials on the Kaga, the Imperial Navy had only four large Japanese fighter pilot "ace" in C hina, gOI his first chance to
Fleel Carriers, with numerous other light and training fly the Zero-Sen in October 1941. AkamatSu had been
carriers. By April t941 Zero-Sen comingents had been formed assigned to the 3rd Air Corps at Kaooya, where the WIit was
un the caITiers Kaga, Akag£J Hiryu and Soryu . By the in training fo r the assault on the Philippines. The plan was
summer of 1942 twO additional large carriers bad joined the la stretch the range of the A6M2 so that the Philippines
fleet, with the fold ing wing tips of the M odel 21 permitti ng attack could be made in a single fligbt from Formosa, thus
use of the aircraft on every fighting carrier in the Imperial avoiding the need for carriers which could then be released
Navy. for the Pearl Harbor attack. Petty Officer Saburo Sakai, wbo
Sheltered from combat, but given almost a year to gain was destined 10 survive the war as the JNAF's third ranking
proficiency with their ahcrafl and home carriers, the rigidly " ace ", received the same training in the Tainan Air Corps
trained Japanese carrier fighter pilots gained confidence . located at Tainan, on Formosa, Other units, including the
There was reason for lhis opLirnism. American and British GetlzaTl and Karwya Air Corps, destined to open the war
carriers were still flying biplanes, while their launch and from Indo-China; the Ominaco, Umura and Y okosuka Air
recovcry timing was slow, according to reports from Lieuten- Corps combining combat readiness and tmining ; and the
ant Commander Minoru Genda, the Navy's Assistant Naval Kasumigaura and Oila Air Corps as [raining bases, received
Ou t WIth til e old I 111 w it h the new r Ml tsublstrr 96 Karlsen A5M 4 I ypt' 96 Ca rller I-r g lrlers I ly ove rlleatl as the new A6M2 rs rea d ied fo r
serVice, Novem her 1941 (Koku Asahr)
r igh ter s on the deck u f the I\kagt as Ihe Nagum o Force crosseu th e 'NAsl ern Pa ci fi c on IS way 10 Pearl H arbo r ( Hl ko Nippon)
variously claimed that the "Zero" was copied from lhe Ta itum Ai r Corps became the unit with the greatest number
Vulteee Vanguard, the Chance- Vought V.143, the Northrop of " aces" in the J1\AF. Chinese veterans like Perry Officers
FT-l , and the Gloster F . 5134 experimental figh te r. The Kuniyoshi Tanaka, Saburo Sakai, and Tainan Air Corps
suggestion that the manoeuver'dble Japanese fighter was Commander Lieutenant Junichi Sassi were joined by
made of plywood and plastics, a far-reaching technological newcomers Toshio Ota, Torakichi Takulsuka, Hi royoshi
achievement beyond the design capubility of Western nations ) Nisruzawa and albers. Tanaka had shot down twelve aircraft
even gained acceptance for a shorr period. With myths in Ch ina and added eight morc kills as the Tu;na:n Air Corps
replacing facts, the search was on for an i_ntact Z ero- Sen for worked its way to its adva nce base at Lac) New Guinea.
evaluation and information . The scant wreckage al Hawaii , Nishizawa went on to become the leading JNAF " ace" of
and the lack of available examples for months to come, made the war.
the aircraft the most sought-after mechanical prize of th e Olher units were rapidly tanned and senl into the war
earl y months of the Pacific War. zones as additional Zero-Sen prod uction became available.
When the Pacific War began the Imperial Navy had 660
M aster of the Skies fighters, of which half were A6l\12 Model 2 ['s. By the end of
March ' 94> some 300 fighters had been lost in combat,
La ter in the day after the arrack at Hawuii) and long hours patrol and training while an add itional 3 [6 were deliverd to
after the initial planned assault due to poor weather) Zeto-Sem the Navy. Most of the new fighters were Zero-Serfs } and unirs
nppea red over the Philippines. In spite of the w:lfning were re-equipped and funned with the fighter. The [St,
provided American forces by radio from Hawaii, virtually 6th anu ChilOSC Air Corps were assigned to the Japanese
the enti re strength of the American and Philippine air forces ·Mandate Islands in the " Inner South Seas," with ChilO"
were lined up on their airftelds. When the 84 Z e.-o-S",s of fighters at newl y- won Wake I sland and others al Aur,
the 3rd and Taillan Air Corps, flying from their Southern K wajalein, l\i.aru s, \Xlotje and olher island s in the chains.
Formosan bases at Tainan, Takao, Tsichu and Palau) first As Rabaul was enlarged, elements of the Ge1lzan, Tainan ,
arrived over their targets at Clark and Nichols Field and Iba 4th and 6th Air Corps flying the A6M> fo rmed the station
Field on the west coast uf Luzon, they <uddenly felt the long defense and offense units. The Hyakuri, Saeki and Y awbe
over-water trip was worth the effort. 'rhey had surprised the Air Corps received Zero-Sem in Japan, while the 202nd
defending air forces during lunchtime, and in one day muved uuough the Indies to the Celebes and finally Timor
American air power in the Philippines was cut back beyond in the " North of Australia" com bat theatre. [n June 1942
the point of usefulne". By the end of December Zero- Sens the M odel 2 [ equipped 753rd Air Corps was added to U1C
were operating out of bases at Davao and Jolu in the Philip- area to fly convoy escort and provide air cover over Western
pines) to remain until the is,l ands were comp letely conquered. New GuinC!"d and Northern Australia.
T he neXL few weeks saw a surge of activity in which victory The most active elements of the JNAF remained the carrier
followed victOry so repeatedly that the Ja panese began to feci forces, with the fighters of the 1st Air Fleet striking across
that it was their destiny to rule the East-Asian and Wt!stern- th ousands of miles of water. " Navy Naughts" , as the Aus-
Pacific world . The acclaimed hero of the victory was the tralians sometimes Ct11led the Z ero-Sen) arracked Port Darwin,
Zero-Sen, reported in the press, on hand at every Clclion, Austral ia, on February 19. Later in the month the carrier
and reportedly invincible in the air. The 1S t Carr ier Division) fleet supported the in vasion of Java. Then, in an attempt to
comi ng back from Hawaii, struck at Wake Island . A deler- re-create the succes of Pearl Harbour, elemen ts of the fleet
mined defense led [0 assignment of the SOIJIU and H£ry u to a headed for Ceylun, str iking at Colombo on April 5 and
repeat attack by Zero-St...,l fighters on D ecember 20. Splitting Trincomalee on April 9. While the attacks were a success from
up at Wake, the Akagi, Kaga, Zuikaku and Sholwku were by the Japanese point of view, the element of surprise was
January 20, f942, attacking sleepy Rabaul, an AustraJinn mi ~s ing. For the fi rst time the carrier-based Zero-SeIlS had
base in New Britain. By the next day this flee t was making an almost matched figh t on their hands when intercepting
aerial strikes with A6M 2 fighters at Lac, Salamaua and British Hurricanes and Fulmars held th e success of the
l\Iladang on the east coaSl of New Guinea. 00 January 31, anackers to a minimwn. By the time the carriers got back to
nine Zero-Sens flying from Truk, the Japanese strong point Japanese Home Waters in the third week of April, the pilot<
in the Western Pacific, landed at Vunakanau Airfield on were the heroes uf the Empi re . They looked the part, for
Rabaul and the build-up of this keystone Japanese base began. th ey were rugged, matured in combat, and deeply tanned
While the carrier forces extended the arm of expansion in from their man y month::, in Southern wa ters. During the
long strokes, the land-based Air Corps of the J:--IAF moved entire crui se the carrier forces never carne um.ler strong
acruss the land b ridge of the Dutch Indies to reach the same attack) and no ship was lost.
goals. After the Philippine operations, the Zero-Sen units But the tide of war was imperceptively beginning to turn.
we re joined by the G enzall and Katwya Air Corps from The AWed fo rces, utterl y defeated in the opening m onths
M alaya and Indo-China, becuming 'he Enst Indies force for of wnr, were firming up. When the Fleet carriers S hokakl4
the final drive throu gh Java. It was during this m ove that the and Zuikakll, plus the light carrier S hoho, of the 5th Carrier
Division went lO sea again the object was the invasion of Port
Moresby, an Allied base on the South-eastern coast of New
Guinea. Air bases there would give Japan coetrol over New
Guinea, Northern Australia and the Solomons. For the
fini[ time opposing carrier forces met in the Battle of the
Coral Sea. On the morning of May 7 American carrier planes
from the Yorkt own and LeXington hit and sank the Shoho,
v,rith the carrier's twelve Zero-Scns going to the bottom of
the sea or landing on the other carriers. The next day, the
Shokaku was badly damaged and put ou t of action. The
American carrier Lcx'inglOn was also sunk, giving the Japanese
a claim of victory. While the batLle actuaUy appeared to be a
draw, the Port Moresby invas ion arrempL was stopped and
the Japanese retreated for the first time in the Pucific War.
The battle was a costl y one, for the PI AF suffered heavy
losses in pilots and aircraft. Expecting an easy victory and
fighting enemy carrier pilots in close quarters for the first
time, the Japanese pilots were careless . During the evening En route to H flWili i the air crews were II1 luf med that thel f large t
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of May 7 more Ll,an one A6M2 pilot attempted to land on the was the Amer ica n hast! ill Pear l Harbor (Asahlglaph)
American carrier Y orkl f1W71, mistaking it for the Shokaku or
Zuikoku in the haze when the rv.;ro carrier fleets were only of their fellow pilots and maintenance crew ~ wa tching from
abou t 30 miles apart. The fa st-thinking American ~ ignalrnen the carrier decks, when Douglas Dauntless bombers dropped
tried to flag Lhem down, but recugnizing their error the in strings from an altitude beyond interception, and had their
Japanese pilots roa red away [Q safety at mast height. The way with the Japanese carriers below them . The S oryu , Kaga
elusive intact Z"o-Sen for American study once again got and Akagi were mortall y wounded, and later in the afternoon
away. the Hiryl/ was hit again. By the morning of Jun e 5 all fou r
By far the grea test Japanese loss v,ms the damaged Shokaku, Fleet Carriers had sunk or were scuttled to avoid capture.
destined to long monLh s under repair, for now this Fleet The sole: American Carrier loss was the Ynrluown, and for
Carrier cou ld not be assigned LO the " Midway Operation ", the first time the c.."3rrier forces in the Pacific were we ighted
the long-planned decisive fleet engagement of the Pacific in favour of the Americans. A desperate plan to use the
Wa r, scheduled for less than" month later. Admiral Yama- aircraft of th e Hosho for further attacks was considered, bu t
moto, himself a pilot, planned to invade l'Vlidway in June was dropped in favour o f a Japanese retreat on June s.
[942, and bring the American fleet out to battle . The Imperial
avy, confident of victory in whatever it undertook, couldn 't Beginning of the End
wait fo r the Shokaku . The invasion plans proceeded, and the
fteet left Japan as the largest attac king furce to eve r sail the The loss in equipment at Midway was staggering. From
high seus. April [942 through March [94), wh ich included the Midway
The "Mid way Operation" cons i ~ ted of two thrusts, wit.h a losses, the J NAF expended 1,590 fighte r planes whi le only
feint in thc far north at the Aleutian and the American base 1,747 were deli vered to the Imperial Navy. This barely met
at Dutch H arbou r. This attack was led bv the Fleet Carrier the lusses at a time when the I\lIied stren gth was increasing.
Ry ujo, newly equipped wi th A6M2 Model 2 t fighters to ~ot only were the carrier comp lements lost, but additional
replace the '}6 Kamen figh ters in use until May, and sup - units as well . A "Midwa y Air Corps" had even been fonned
ported by the Light Carrier Jllnyo , ne wly converted from a fo r the occupation of the island, with all of the aircraft
tourist liner and equipped Witll 2[ Zero-SeilS. Striking b y stored below deck on the Fleet Carriers sunk in th e battle.
surprise from 400 miles away on June ), and aga in on June 4 Fortuna tely, many of the Midway pilots were saved as their
(American time), the Japanese suffered under the extreme aircraft were in the ai r. Most of them were rescued by
weathe r and were only able to place a total of twenty A6M2 destroyers which picked them up from the water. The
fighters and 36 bombers over the target. Lieutenant Yoshio greatest loss was on the H iryu with 60 pilots killed in the
Shiga, commander of the fig h te rs, regre tfull y reported the battle. The survivors were taken back to Japan nnd re-
loss of a Zero-Sen in the F irst Wave attack on June 3 flown by assigned to th e S hokaku, ZlIikaku and R:yujo [ 0 replace
Petty Officer Tada yoshi Koga from the RYlljo. Koga 's A6M2 losses. Others wen t to land bases in the Solomons where
had been hit by a stray bullet, leading to loss offue/. Droppong they flew their now-ag ing Zero-Sen and its late r Model )2
behind, be followed a pre-arranged plan to land on the small and Model 22 varjants. Mosr of them were lost there.
island of Akutan to be picked up later by subm ari ne. On the T he last major carrier use of the A6M2 was in the battle of
secoed day two of Junyo 's fighters were lost in combat, as Santa Cruz on October 26, '942 . By now the Americans had
wdl as two bombers, while the Japanese pilots reported the landed at Guadalcanal and the Japanese threw the carriers
downing of five or six American fi ghters. Japanese rescue Slwkaku, Zuikaku, Zuihn and Junyo intO a battle to sever the
subs, scouring the area, found no trace of the missing pilots American sup ply lifeline to Guadalcanal in the Eastern
and gave up the search. The carrier fleet retired without loss. Solomons . Under constant attack by bombers and fighters
Meanwhile, far to the sou th , the Midway assault began . At Hying extended-range missions from Rabaul, and then under
davm on June 41 Lieutenant ~1a saharu Suganami of the Japanese carrier aircraft attac:k, the American position on
Snryu, u Zero·Sell flying veteran of Pearl Har bour, led the Henderson Field on Guadalcanal held out against greatly
first fig hter group of nine fighters each from the S oryu, Akagi,
Hiryu and Kaga against Mid way to support tbe D31\2 and Th e early morning hou rs of Sunday. December 7 1941 . while
BSK2 bom bers. The Japanese fighters contained the American America slp.p l Pi lots of the 1St Carlle r D,v,sion man Ihelr planes on
the high seas (S hiJ shin Shu ho)
defenders and not one of the Japanese bombers was attacked.
The light c..'1.rrit' rs Hosho and Zuilw, far to the rear, were used
(Q provide anti-sub and CAP cover for the Japanese surface
fleet. As rhe day progressed the Japanese were unab le to
locate the American carrier flect, although they were under
carrier aircraft altack. in a we lter of confusion they armed,
re-annoo and again re-armed their aircraft fo r alternating
attacks against the American fleet , Midway and the fleet
again. At the height of the third re-arroing the Japanese
carriers were caught 'by American dive bombers, and the
course of the Pacific War was changed in five minutes. The
defendin g CAP Zero-S"IS had just thwarted a repeated
series of low-level torpedo and shallow dive-bombing
anempts by the Americans, encouraged by the shouted cheers
back to Japan for Kamikaze operations, the final combat use
of the best known japanese aircraft of aU times.
Fighter on Floats
The possibility of war in the Pacific, based on the pressures
being exerted by the Western Democracies and Japan's need
for Dutch Indies oil and tin, was seriously faced by the
Imperial Navy at the time the Zern-Sen made irs first appear-
ance in the A6M2 Model 1 1 form in J 940. The need to hold
positional bases in Southern waters after the carriers had
struck, and before land-based fighters could be moved in
due to base construction requirements, led to the assignment
of a t 5-Slti specification for a ftoatplane fighter. Kawanishi
got the developmental order while Nakajima got an interim
order late in 1940 to qu.ickly produce a stop-gap float fighter
to have on hand in litt1e over I:l year. To save engineering
On the alert Grou nd crewm en ready (0 release an sign al
(Koku As.h l).
time the A6M2 Model 1 I mjnus its landing gear was to be
the design basis, and in February 1941 work began on
superior forces . But a new sense of American victory was Nakajima Project AS-I as the A6M2-N. Nakajima engineers
being fell, for now the Japanese loss rate of A6M2 Model 21 Tajima and Niitake used every short-cut at their command,
fighters was far exceeding the American losses. With the and by December T941 the first of four prototypes was on hand
carriers Sholwkll and Zuiho damaged beyond further use in at the Yokosuka Naval Air Test centre. Wind tunnel and water
the battle in carrier-vs.-carrier aircraft duels, the Japanese tank tests led to the use of the existing ESN T mainfloat
retreated. Never again would the ClZero Fighter", by now d esign, mounted on a single pylon, with fuel tankage in the
now tagged with the Allied Code Name " Zeke" (although thc fioat, and modified ve rtical tail surfaces to provide the
name "Zero" retained iLS popularity for the remainder of the necessary additional directional stability. On December 8
war), be regarded as invincible, for now the allied pilots were (Japanese time), only a matter of hours after the attack at
armed with information. A few weeks after the carrier-aircraft Pearl Harbor, the prototype A6M2-N made irs first fligbt.
attacks on Dutch Harbour in the Aleutians the previous By April the fighter was in production, with experimental
June, an American patrol plane spotted an unfamiliar shape Model II prototypes scheduled for combat evaluation within
in a bog on Akutan Island . A ground party went in, discovered weeks in the Pacific. In July the A6M2-N was officially
thal the young Japanese naval Petty Officer who flew il had accepted for JNAF production as the Type 2 Floatplane
broken his neck and died when his "Zero Fighter" Hipped Fighter, Model 1 J . It became generally known as the 2
over on h.itting the soft surface) and brought the aircraft out. Suisen.
h proved to be a newly-produced Zero-Sen built at Nagoya in lts test of strength was soon in coming. In much the same
February . In july the aircrafl was under repair at the United manner as the 12-Sili A6M2 was whisked to China, the pre-
States Naval Air Station at San Diego, California and by p rod uction A6M2-N was sent to the Solomons. On May 3,
September il was flying in USN colours . Pelly Officer 1942, as a prelude to what was to be the unsuccessfu.l Port
Tadayoshi Koga's Model 21 from the Ry ujo gave the Ameri- Moresby invasion, Florida Island and the harbour of Tulagi
can Navy the prize it sought so long. The first performance were in vaded. This strategic inlet further extended Rabaul' s
report was issued to American pilots on September 4) and by defense perimeter and gave the jNAF a base in the Solomons
October 31 a full report on the " Zeke's" performance in that provided air cover over North-eastern New Guinea as
combat was widely distributed. The many "Zero Fighter" well as the Bism ark Islands behind it and the far reaches of
myths were put to rest, and AmeriC'dn pilots learned how to the Solomons before it. The Yokohama Ai r Corps, equipped
use their slower, less manoeuverable aircraft to best advan ~ with twelve of the service- lesl A6M2-N float fighters, was
tage, for in high-speed rolls and pushovers the stronger immediately moved in. By the time Americ..1n carrier aircraft
American aircraft had it all over the lighter " Zeke. " were counterattacking on May 4, they were being intercepted
After Sama Cruz the A6M2 Model 2 1 did nol disappear by the 2 Suisen. Surprised by the: American presence, the
from service, although it now became a supplemental aircraft Yokohama Air Corps lost 3 or 4 of its new fighter~, which
rather than the prime combal model. An aLLempt was made were quickly replaced from japan.
to improve the performance of the A6M2 with a turbo- As a fighter the z Suisen was formidab le, but as a ftoatplane
supercharger as the A6M4, but the idea was dropped after it was a shock. Armed with two 20mm cannon and two 7.7
tvo'O prototypes were tested. Newer Model 32, Model 22 and maclline guns, the A6M2-N had a speed of 270 m .p.h. It
later the Model 52 variants took over the Zero- S", pro- literally out-performed its American carrier-based opposition,
duction lines. Most of the later-formed Model 2 1 units, and intercepted land-based B-17E F lying Fortress bombers
such as the K 011Oike, Tokushima, Tsuiki and Tsukuba Air as high as 20)000 feet. Because it was there and had a home
Corps ill Japan, used the !vtodel 21 on trainjng duties. Units base in the area, the z Suisen owned the skies over the
stretched along the Chinese coast to Syonan, the Japanese Solomons. Code named " Rufe" hy the Allies, the fighter
name for Singapore, using the lv10del 21 for anti-submarine soon showed up throughout the Southern Islands; in the
patrol duties as part of the ISt Escort Group, as well as Shortiands, Rekata Bay, Poporang in the Southern Bougain-
training. Some of these units, including the 309th and 38lSt villes and around the approaches to Rabau!. As production gOt
Air Corps at Syonan, and the 90lSt in China, still had Model moving in July r942, with an improved model coming off the
21 's on hand at the end of the war, although many had been Nakajima lines beginning in December and continuing
shipped to japan for Special Attack purposes. through the end of p roduction in September J943, the "Rufe"
Some uf the Model 2I'S even saw first- line combat years began to show up wherever the JNAF had water close at
after passing their prime. The 601 St Air Corps received hand, in areas where improved ai rfields were not avai lable.
Model 2 1'S in February 1944, and assigned the.m to the The most dramatic use of the uRufc" was in the Aleutians.
carriers H okaku, Shokaku and Zuikaku in April t944 to be Aft~r Midway, Admi.raJ Yamamoto felt it unwise to anempt
used in the defense of the Marianas. The 6520d and 653rd lo mvade the Aleutians, but Naval Headquarters and his
Air Corps in the Marianas had the A6M2 in first-line service fellow officers overruled his objections. Their goal was to
in June 1944 as fighter-bombers, with the 652nd losing six occupy American land and prevent any assaults or invasion
and the 6S3rd losing 42 out of irs original 46 in the "Marianas attempts against northern Japan across the island-hopping
Turkey Shoot" between June 18 and 20. When the 341Sl land bridge stretching from Alaska to the Kuriles. Sadly
Air Corps went to its base at Clark Field in the Philippines underrating their enemy, the Ja panese asswned that the biuer
in the summer of 1944 it took Model 21'S along for training, weather would restrict American counter-measures and that
with examples later captured there by American invasion the 2 SUllen, in the absence of airfields, wou ld command the
forces. When the 11th Air Corps was finally disbanded at skies and be able to defend the japanese bases at Kiska and
Syonan in D ecember '944, its pilots joined the 38TSt Air Attu. The float fighlers, accompanied by E13A2, E8NI and
Corps stationed there, while its A6M2 equipment was sent FIM2 floatplanes, were ferried in during June and july 1942
Rel sens wa rming up on the dec k of th e Akagi [he morning af December SUI. 1941 . J apanese time. pri or to the Pea rl Harbo r
attack ( M. Tada ).
by the seaplane tenders Chilose, ChljlOda and Kamikawa-Marll. twenty-eight P-38 and P-39 fig hters, the American Army
At Ki ska , the Kamikawa- Maru unloaded its fi rst eight Air Forces destroyed four "Rufes" without combat loss,
" Rufes" for the Sth Air Corps on June IS . Commanded by although two of the P-38'S collided and crashed .
Captain Takahashi, by July J4 the 5th Air Corps had a dozen Attacks almost daily, and continued strafing of the Japanese
of the fioat figh ters set up and in operation, plus all the fighters, broke the back of the resistance. By March 1943 the
support equipment and supplies to m~intain the unit for an freque ntl y reinforced 5th, later the 452nd, and Toko Air
extended period . T hey operated out of Kiska Harbor. Corps were inoperab le . At one point seven "Rufes" were
They arri ved none too soon. Within a week after their sunk or beached at Ki ska, beyond repair, wh ile the strafed
arrival the Japanese at Kiska were under American air wreckage of other " Rufes" litte red Holtz Bay at Attu .
attack, whi ch only intensified as the months passed and the When American forces landed at Anu in May ' 943 there
Americans bui lt airstrips closer and closer to the Japanese was no fighter opposition. By August the Americans landed
occupied islands. Briefly capturing Attu Island, leaving it, at Kiska, only to discover that the entire Japanese force had
and returning again to prevent its use as an air base, the moved out under cover of fog the month before and escaped
JNAF moved the Tako Ai r Corps into Allu in October and unscathed. A wrecked "Rufe" was pulled out of the sea at
provided it with " Rufe" fighters . B-I7E Flying Fortress, Attu in June, shipped to the Alameda Naval Air Station in
B-24 LiberalOr, Catalina and finally Lockheed P -38 Lightning California for ::;tudy, and Lhen soon forgotten . Pilots in the
fighter attacks against the lonely Japanese garrisons, with superior Allied aircraft no longer worried about the makeshift
the P-38 ::;eeing its first combal use in the Pacific, kept the fighter.
Japanese units unde~ constant pressure. In the early days of Tn the South Pacific, the 2 Suistm suffered equally hard,
the Aleutians fighting the " Rufe" pilots held their own. with the men of the Y okohama Air Corps, fi rst unit equipped
Although there were no 2 Suisen "aces", a creditab le number \\';th the fighter, becoming national martyrs. Continually on
of American bombers were downed by the fast fioatplanes. the offensive, and almost as consistently winning, the Imperial
On at least one occasion a "Rufe" downed a P-38, in spite of Navy was totally unprepared for any Allied counterattack.
the fact that the American fighter definitel y held the advan- On August 7, 1942 it came) and the target was the ourer
tage. Over Kiska, the 5th Air Corps maintained CAP cover reaches of the Solomons. Just before dawn the garrison at
with two "Rufes" throughout the day, wi th two more going Tulagi reported that F lorida and Guadalcanal islands were
up as soon 3 S the patrol on duty started down . By September under beavy bombardment. When communications stopped,
1942 the lOp ranking " Rufe" pilot at Kiska had shot down 8th F leet Headquarters at Rabaul could only assume that
two B-17'S. On September 14 the tide definitely turned. Tulagi and the Y okohama Air Corps had been completely
M ounting a heavy raid of twelve 8-24'S supported by overrun. American landings had been made, all eight of the
Wa iling rOI the moment of re le ase of Re lsens on th e deck of the Akagi {R. 'Vi . Bue sc he l}.
Yokohama 's "Rufes" were destroyed, and the: brutal battle
for control of Guadakanal and the Solomons had begun .
With the outer fringes of Japan's wartime empire ca ute rized,
the "Rufe" \V3 ~ no longer the advance representative: of the
JNAF in the air. Its r61e became defensive and largely passive.
in the combat zones, with the: transport carrier Kaiyo
supplying the 958th Air Corps at Rabaul, the A6M2- still
found use as an interceptor until the pull-out early in 1944.
At Paramushiro in the Kuriles the remnants of the 452nd
Air Corps ftf!\\1 interception missions from their base at
Shimushu in 1942 and 1943, flying a d07.e n " Rufes". Farther
back behind the Pacific front, " Rufes" of the 40th Air Corps,
later becoming the 936th, provided convoy escort, anti-
submarine and reconnaissance patrol from its bases at
Syonan and Drunei in North Borneo until the end of the
war. The 80 lst formerly the Y olwhama Air Corps, and the
Olnl Air Corps in Ja pan were also used for patrol, while the
" Rufes of the OISU Air Corps even doubled as B-29 inter-
cepcocs late in 1944 from their base on Lake Biwa near
Kyoto. Some of the la[e model A6M2-N fighters, 73 of which
were completed in a rush in Septembe.r 1943 '(Q tenninate
production, had full rughl flying gear for patrol duties.
Others became [rainer> for the powerful Kawanishi l\ I K I
Kyofu. floatplane fighter "Rex ", entering service early in IY45. A hove The signal IS 9 .... en Relc~se on the carner Sho kak u (Shashln
A few even survived the war, with at leasl onc of the 930th Sh u hn)
Air Corps "Rufes" ultimatel y serving under French colours
in Indo-China until the early [950'S.
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