They were attacked by three Japanese Zeroes about 80 km north of Broome.
The soldier asks, "You were shot down by a Japanese Zero?"
On approach, Japanese Zeros attack the landing craft and Rook defends it with the machine gun.
The sail was sky blue with the profile of a Japanese Zero or German aircraft painted in black.
No more than four Japanese Zeros were destroyed.
They proved to be no match for the Japanese Zero in air-to-air combat and were withdrawn from combat by the end of 1942.
It's not like a piece of a Japanese Zero that was shot down during the war.
His plane and crew perish when they are shot down by a Japanese Zero and the B-29 bursts into flames.
In this film Reagan mistakes a friend's P-40 for a Japanese Zero and tries to shoot it down.
It was the size of a Japanese Zero.