NEW JAP ZERO
(Received February, 13, 9 p.m.) NEW YORK, February 12.
The War Department disclosed that the latest type of Japanese Zero fighter is superior to the older models, but has so light and fragile a wing that the surface wrinkles like tissue in flight. Nevertheless they are highly manoeuvrable and powerfully gunned Their chief deficiency is poor protection for the pilot.
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 118, 14 February 1944, Page 5
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