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Better tactics with P40s could give a better exchange ratio than even. The AVG and even the USAAF showed that, later.
And most Japanese fighters in the Philippines weren’t zeros.

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The Navy cleaned up a lot of them and the AAF with the P-38 got the remainder.

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The only Jap airplanes that I saw were JN Zeros and a few Bettys. I think that our big advantage was that none of them had self-sealing fuel tanks. But someplace I did see Japanese airplanes with raw rubber sheets strapped on the wings over the tanks. I doubt if that worked though.