A6M2-N Rufe - 'Floatplane Zero' in the Aleutian Campaign (Part 2)
After the Americans built an airfield on the island of Adak, their single engine fighters P-39 and P-40 were able to escort bombers all the way to the Japanese stronghold on Kiska Island. This was a real turning point in the Aleutians campaign but the Japanese were still determined not to allow the Americans to kick them out easily. A6M2-N 'Rufe' pilots were still able to hit hard and a number of American planes fell as their victims.
Sources:
John Haile Cloe - The Aleutian Warriors: A History of the 11th Air Force & Fleet Air Wing 4,
https://amzn.to/4bjGyai
Krzysztof Janowicz - A6M2-N Rufe
https://amzn.to/42qNIWl
Brian Garfield - Thousand-Mile War: World War II in Alaska and the Aleutians
https://amzn.to/496NRkm
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