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//Japanese Zero Fighter//. Web. 1 Jan. []. Facts Its durability came the price of low armament and few bombing options
 * 1)  When Americans were losing a dogfight to Zeros they would dive because one of the weaknesses of the Zeros was it would dive to quickly
 * 2)  Its actually name is Zeke but the Allies referred to it as Zero
 * 3)  4 years after it was made the Japanese zero was no longer the best plane in the sky
 * 4)  The Americans soon started making planes that would better the zero after the first dogfight
 * 5)  after the war Sabaro Sakai a leading Japanese ace said he would have rather flown a P51 ( an American plane) rather than their own Japanese Zero
 * 6)  Japanese pilots knew they needed a faster and tougher plane
 * 7)  To the Japanese dog fighting was an art form you had to come up with clever ways to out maneuver your enemy
 * 8)  Other ways that Americans learned to attack Zeros and win was that they had to attack in much larger numbers and fight at high altitudes this was called Thatch Weave
 * 9)  Another weakness for the Zeros was it didn’t do as well at high altitudes
 * 10)  The Zero first flew in 1939
 * 11)  The Japanese Zero was not first used against America in fact it was first used against China years before Japan even attack America
 * 12)  Even though the Zero didn’t attack us for a while we still new about it
 * 13)  At the beginning of the Pacific war the Zero was the standard fighter for the Japanese
 * 14)  The zero was known as the ultimate dog fighting plane