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Akutan Zero
pampa14
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Posted: Monday, June 09, 2014 - 09:09 PM UTC

In July 1942, the United States captured the first Japanese Zero fighter. The link below provides information and photos of this aircraft, called the Akutan Zero:


http://aviacaoemfloripa.blogspot.com.br/2011/02/akutan-zero.html


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Aurora-7
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Connecticut, United States
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Posted: Tuesday, June 10, 2014 - 03:23 AM UTC
Thanks for the post, Marcelo.

I've never seen that many images of it post-fix-up before.

Too bad it was accidently chopped to pieces by a taxi accident with a Helldiver.
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