| Japanese flyers started
the war better trained, more experienced and better equipped than their
opponents. They had some spectacular early success and built reputations
for their planes that did not stand up to the harsh realities of life
when the allied airmen got some decent equipment and some training and
experience.
The Zero was the prime example. While
it was a real killer against old slow pre war planes, it was no match
for the later models that rolled of the production lines in the USA and
Britain.
Click on the thumbnails or the
navigation bar to get details of a plane. These have been chosen to go
here because these are the planes that were used against the 42nd
Australian Infantry Battalion and their mates. |
