I watched Red Tails on TV.
It is amazing how those P-51’s could maneuver like F-22’s.
At the war’s beginning, the Japanese Zero was unrivaled in the sky. Its radial engine developed 950 horsepower.
The Zero weighed about the same as a modern day SUV.
So, if you can imagine your SUV having 950 hp, that’s
what handling a Zero was like.
Another interesting Midway fact is that 621 bombs were dropped from altitude onto the Japanese fleet.
Not one of them so much as scratched the paint on a ship.