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"Peter" == Peter Stickney writes:
Peter Actually, it's fairly easy to see why - The Imperial Peter Japanese Navy was only so large - they didn't have enough Peter ships to be everywhere in the Pacific at once. /../ Peter /../ They could fly htier land-based bombers from their Peter forward based in Indochina and Formosa, but they'd arrive Peter without fighter escorts. The same, of course, would apply Peter to any sea-borne invasions force - no fighter cover, and Peter they'd be sitting ducks in the target area. Peter /../ One of the most closely held secrets if the IJN was Peter the unprecedented range of the A6M (Year Zero) Peter fighter. /../ Peter Much has been made of teh Zero's maneuverability as the key Peter to its success early in the war. /../ Sorry, but that's not true AFAIK: the fact that it came as a surprise to some of the Allies is not the same as the IJN keeping it a strict secret. The IJN never considered it secret, using it in China. Chennault wrote of this fighter in 1940 and 1941, and the Chinese certainly knew of this successor to the Type 96 'Claude'. -- G Hassenpflug * IJN & JMSDF equipment/history fan |
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