Here are 5 things that you probably never knew about the famous Mitsubishi "Zero" fighter in World War II. The A6M2 and A6M3 was the premier fighter of Japan during the second world war.

Use the controls at the bottom of the frame to navigate, zoom in and out, or view full-screen. Mitsubishi designed the Navy Type Zero Carrier-Based Fighter in 1937, and it became the symbol of ...

COURTESY U.S. AIR FORCE MUSEUM The wreckage of Japanese Petty Officer 1st Class Takeshi Hirano's A6M2 Zero fighter at a Fort Kamehameha ordnance machine shop on Dec. 7, 1941. The crash killed four ...

A rare piece of Pearl Harbor history has found its way to eBay. The stenciled fuselage serial number from Japanese Petty Officer 1st Class Takeshi Hirano's crashed A6M2 Zero fighter is being sold on ...

In this historical photo from the U.S. space agency, a Mitsubishi A6M2 that was captured at Akutan Island, Alaska, in August 1942. This Mitsubishi A6M2 fighter was the first "Zero" to fall intact into ...

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 ...

The Ki-27 was a single-seater, highly maneuverable, fixed-gear airplane, but it was no match for the Flying Tigers. When one thinks of Imperial Japan’s World War II fighter planes, the... The Zero ...