[ANGGAPO]

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.

[buwaya]

You saw Jap planes ? Were you out there in WWII ?

FWIW, the Japanese Naval airforce (Tainan wing and others) was active over the Philippines only up to the end of Dec 1941, after the Japanese landings it was almost all Japanese army units, which in the Philippines mainly used Nakajima Ki-27 “Nate”.