A6M3 Zero "Rabul Flying Group", 1/72

The American military discovered many of the A6M's unique attributes when they recovered a mostly

 intact specimen on Akutan Island in the Aleutians. Flight Petty Officer Tadayoshi Koga was losing fuel

and hoped to make an emergency landing but the Zero flipped over and the pilot's neck was broken.

740 Model 21s were completed by Mitsubishi, and another 800 by Nakajima. Two other versions of the Model 21

 were built in small numbers, the Nakajima-built A6M2-N "Rufe" floatplane (based on the model 11 with a slightly modified tail),

 and the A6M2-K two-seat trainer of which a total of 508 were built by Hitachi and the Sasebo Naval Air Arsenal.