Trumpeter 02405 Mitsubishi A6M2b Model 21 Zero Fighter  [TP02405]

The A6M2b Type 21 Zero was the next major manufacturing version of this famous WWII aircraft. The first A6M2 began flight evaluation on December 28, 1939. The aircraft's performance exceeded the Navy's many positive expectation. Production of a preliminary solution test batch of A6M2s started, and initial journey studies had been finished in July of 1940. The Type 21 was externally just like the earlier in the day Type 11 but was fully navalised with folding wing tips and a tail hook. On July 21, 1940 the Japanese Navy chose to assign 15 pre-production A6M2s on 12th Combined Naval Air Corps for combat trials in China. In China, the A6M2 joined combat for the first time on August 19, 1940. In combat the Zero became a formidable adversary to most other modern fighters, and spearheaded the Japanese assaults on Pearl Harbor, the Philippines & most for the other Japanese Pacific conquests. The final air battles battled by the A6M2 were on October 26, 1942 throughout the Battle of Santa Cruz. After that timing, the A6M2 had been superseded by the A6M3 form of the Reisen, and A6M2s were relegated to second-line devices and training outfits. Several obsolete A6M2s had been brought back to functional status and expended in kamikaze assaults within the last few year of the war.

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