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Saburo Sakai's A6M2 Zero

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Sub-Lieutenant Saburō Sakai (坂井 三郎 Sakai Saburō, 25 August 1916 – 22 September 2000) was a Japanese naval aviator and flying ace ("Gekitsui-O", 撃墜王) of the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II.
Sakai had 28 aerial victories (including shared) by official Japanese records, while his autobiography Samurai!, co-written by Martin Caidin and Fred Saito, claims 64 aerial victories. Such discrepancies are common, and pilots' official scores are often lower than those claimed by the pilots themselves, due to difficulties in providing appropriate witnesses or verifying wreckage, and variations in military reports due to loss or destruction.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saburō_Sakai

This image is of Sakai's A6M2 Zero, tail code V-173, preserved at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra and now on public diplay
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