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When Japan Laughed at the Hellcat — Then the Zero Was Finished in WW2

Japan Mocked the Hellcat — Until It Ended the Zero’s Reign in WW2 The Fall of the Zero Legend In 1943, Saburo Sakai—the one-eyed Japanese ace who had cheated death more than once—burst into laughter after reading the specs of America’s newest fighter, the F6F Hellcat. To him, it looked like a slow, overweight brute—nothing compared to the elegant, razor-sharp agility of the Mitsubishi A6M Zero that had ruled the Pacific skies. But that laughter would soon vanish, replaced by a nightmare the Imperial Japanese Navy never recovered from. Japan believed air combat was a graceful duel shaped by skill and honor. The United States treated it like a factory—mass-produced, methodical, and ruthlessly efficient. The Hellcat didn’t bother trying to turn with the Zero. Instead, it brought raw horsepower, thick armor, and deadly “Boom-and-Zoom” tactics that rewrote the rules of the air war. In this Storie Dannate episode, we uncover how the Hellcat—soon dubbed the “Ace Maker”—crushed Japan’s aerial supremacy, paved the way for the infamous “Great Marianas Turkey Shoot,” and ultimately contributed to Japan’s desperate turn toward Kamikaze attacks.