Japanese pilots mocked this “tub”—until the Hellcat achieved a 19-to-1 kill ratio in the Marianas. скачать в хорошем качестве

Japanese pilots mocked this “tub”—until the Hellcat achieved a 19-to-1 kill ratio in the Marianas.

Rabaul, 1943. When ace pilot Saburo Sakai read the intelligence report on the new American fighter—the F6F Hellcat—the entire tent of Japanese pilots erupted in laughter. Six tons? Twice the weight of a Zero? This was the Americans' new weapon? In their eyes, it was nothing more than a clumsy, ugly "flying iron bucket"—prey destined to be carved up by the Zero, the "scalpel of the sky." But they were wrong. Dead wrong. This mocked "fatty" didn't just end the myth of the Zero; it staged the most brutal, one-sided massacre in the history of aerial warfare during the Battle of the Philippine Sea. Join us as we return to the Pacific Theater of WWII to witness how Grumman's "Aluminum Tank" used pure industrial violence to crush the Samurai spirit, turning the sky from a dueling ground into a slaughterhouse. "The Zero made us think we were samurai; the Hellcat showed us we were just men with outdated weapons." #WWII #AirCombat #F6FHellcat #A6MZero #MilitaryHistory #History