Cool—a Japanese Mitsubishi Zero in U.S. Navy colors [Wikipedia].
Probably the Zero that was assembled from five Zeros captured during the Aleutian campaign.
My mistake, the Zero that I was refering to is an A6M3. The one in the photo is an A6M5, so most probably, it was captured on some airfield at the end of the war.
I can already see the Korean conspiracy theorists seeing this as proof that the Americans were behind the invasion of Korea by the Japanese.
[...] by the Marmot’s cool photo of a Japanese zero in U.S. marking, I rounded up a few other pictures of cross-dressed aircraft and [...]
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Probably the Zero that was assembled from five Zeros captured during the Aleutian campaign.
My mistake, the Zero that I was refering to is an A6M3. The one in the photo is an A6M5, so most probably, it was captured on some airfield at the end of the war.
I can already see the Korean conspiracy theorists seeing this as proof that the Americans were behind the invasion of Korea by the Japanese.
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[...] by the Marmot’s cool photo of a Japanese zero in U.S. marking, I rounded up a few other pictures of cross-dressed aircraft and [...]