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Re: Navy F4F vs Zero
Hello CJE
Lundstrom's First Team is the source to look answers to You question.
IIRC Lunsdstrom opinion is that there definitely was Zero vs F4F air combats over Shoho and he gives a couple pages description on that. His opinion is that because of the long clear canopy of Zero the pilot who downed the Zero claimed it as Val IIRC or as some other 2-seater. So my bet is that the F4F pilot who shot down the Shoho’s Zero was the first Wildcat pilot to shoot down Zero, Lundstrom names the pilot in his book as he names the Zero pilot but all I recall is that the name of Japanese pilot was one of the longer ones of Japanese names, Iwamoto or something like that. Check the book and I’ll do it when I’ll get to home.
Juha
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