The Role Of Mitsubishi A6M Zero Fighters In The Attack On Pearl Harbor

The Mitsubishi A6M Zero (Allied reporting name “Zeke”) was Imperial Japan’s most famous and iconic fighter plane of the Second World War. As I noted in a recent previous Simple flying article, “Zero” practically became a generic label for WWII Japanese fighter planes in general, even though the actual Zero was strictly an Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN; /Dai-Nippon Teikoku Kaigun) asset as opposed to the Imperial Japanese Army Air Service (IJAAS; /Dainippon Teikoku Rikugun Kkbutai).