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FRENCH LANGUAGE MAGAZINE. When on November 26- 1941 the six aircraft carriers of the Kido Butai secretly left the bay of Hito-Kappu in the Kuril Islands and set sail for Pearl Harbor- they embarked about 380 aircraft: dive bombers- bombers - torpedo boats and fighters. All of them in their category represent the very best in terms of single-engine combat aircraft. The fighters are of the Mitsubishi A6M2 Reisen or Zero type- the first of which entered service just over a year ago. As the War of the Pacific was about to begin- a period was certainly short for the Zero (barely a few months) but during which it was to forge a legend which few planes can boast of having benefited from in the world. It is to the description of this almost mythical device that this work will focus- which constitutes a first opus; a second will be devoted to his rich operational career.