Koga’s Zero

By Jim Reardon

“In April 1942 thirty-six Zeros attacking a British naval base at Colombo, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), were met by about sixty Royal Air Force aircraft of mixed types, many of them obsolete. Twenty-seven of the RAF planes went down: fifteen Hawker Hurricanes (of Battle of Britain fame), eight Fairey Swordfish, and four Fairey Fulmars. The Japanese lost one Zero. Five months after America.”

For more on the Zeroes and in particular the significance of the recovery of Koga’s Zero, the Zero that went down in the attack, click here.

Courtesy of Disabled American Veterans, Chapter 16.

For more on the actual discovery, click here.

Courtesy of Kodiak Alaska Military History.

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