MITSUBISHI A6M REI-SEN ZERO: When the Wind Rises
MITSUBISHI A6M REI-SEN ZERO: When the Wind Rises

MITSUBISHI A6M REI-SEN ZERO: When the Wind Rises

L20220362
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When on 26 November 1941 the six aircraft carriers of the Kidō Butai secretly left the anchorage of Hito-Kappu in the Kuril Islands and set course for Pearl Harbor, they embarked approximately 380 aircraft: dive bombers, torpedo bombers and fighters.

All of them, in their respective categories, represented the best available in single-engine combat aircraft at the time. The fighters were of the Mitsubishi A6M2 Reisen or Zero type, the first having entered service barely a year earlier.

As the Pacific War was about to begin, the Zero entered a period that was admittedly brief (barely a few months) but during which it forged a legend that few aircraft in the history of aviation can claim to have achieved.

It is to a description of this near-mythical aircraft that this work devotes itself, constituting a first volume; a second will be dedicated to its rich operational career.


 

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Author 1
Alex Euphrosine
Publication date
September 2022
Pages
112
Illustrations
100+ illustrations
Cover
Paperback
Format
25.5 x 18.5 cm
Language
French
Publisher
Editions Caraktère
EAN
9782916403618

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