A6M Zero Photographs | World War II Database

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As seen from USS Sangamon off Surigao Island, Philippines, 26 Oct 1944, escort Carrier USS Suwannee recovering aircraft. Note the TBM-1C Avenger lining up to land on the carrier and A6M Zero diving on the ship.	A Mitsubishi A6M Zero special attack aircraft diving on the carrier Lexington (Essex-class) off the Philippines, 5 Nov 1944. This plane struck the carrier directly outboard of the secondary conn causing moderate damage

A6M5 Model 52c Zero fighters on an airfield, circa early 1945	Japanese A6M fighters at Toyohara Airfield, Taichu (now Taichung), Taiwan, 1945, photographed by attacking US B-25 bombers

Japanese pilots Warrant Officer Yuzaburo Toguchi and Ensign Matsuo Hagiri at Yokosuka Airfield, Japan, 1945; note N1K Shiden-kai and A6M aircraft	Japanese Zero special attack aircraft, already burning from anti-aircraft fire, diving on USS Columbia during the Lingayen Gulf operation in the Philippine Islands, 6 Jan 1945

Japanese special attack Zero fighter crashing into USS Missouri, off Okinawa, Japan, 11 April 1945	A6M Zero, damaged by concentrated anti-aircraft fire, diving on USS Essex, 14 May 1945

A6M Zero fighters on an airfield near Tokyo, Japan, late Aug 1945	Captured A6M3 Model 22 Zero fighter, near Buin, Bougainvile, Sep 1945

Captured Japanese A6M Zero fighter at Bougainville, Solomon Islands, Sep 1945; note missing stabilizer on aircraft and jeep in background	Captured A6M5 Model 52 Zero fighters and one Ki-46 reconnaissance aircraft at the RNZAF airfield at Jacquinot Bay, New Britain, 18 Sep 1945

Abandoned Zero fighter, Kai Tak Airport, Hong Kong, 1945	Captured A6M5 Model 52 fighter with US markings, Naval Air Station Anascotia, Washington, DC, United States, circa late 1945 or early 1946

A6M2 Zero fighter being tested by the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration, post-WW2	Abandoned A6M5 Model 52, post-WW2

A6M Zero Model 52 fighter on display at the Yushukan Museum, Tokyo, Japan, 7 Sep 2009, photo 1 of 5	A6M Zero Model 52 fighter on display at the Yushukan Museum, Tokyo, Japan, 7 Sep 2009, photo 2 of 5

A6M Zero Model 52 fighter on display at the Yushukan Museum, Tokyo, Japan, 7 Sep 2009, photo 3 of 5	A6M Zero Model 52 fighter on display at the Yushukan Museum, Tokyo, Japan, 7 Sep 2009, photo 4 of 5