“...remains of a Jap Zero on a mountain top...”
I know where there’s an old C-46 Commando down in a ravine on a hillside up near Pleiku. In 1967 it was still visible, probably isn’t by now. Lots of interesting stuff to see, looking down into the jungle.
The Jap Zero parts were near the top of Nui Chao Chinh not far from Xuan Loc. There was a relay station on top & I flew an Agent Orange mission in a Huey with dispersers out each door & a plastic tank inside. We circled the mountaintop at barely 20 kts; if the engine failed we were done for.
It was to defoliate the last fifty meters up to the mountaintop. Mentioned a monastery; it was halfway up NCC & was suspected VC. Came back a month later & the area we sprayed was completely barren not a leaf in sight.
It was then that I spotted the Zero stuff including the tail assembly; took some BW slides maybe I’ll have them computer enhanced for detail.
Nearer the coast was a C-123 that crashed in 1966.
I once saw a C-46 fuselage that someone made into a house, on a cinder block base set into a hillside.