WW2 Warbirds a term used to describe ex military aircraft flying or static in civilian ownership currently. However when we utter the term “warbirds” people usually think of the aircraft from world war 2 that are either currently in flying condition or on static display in museums around the world. These flying pieces of history are important and as the victors the allied aircraft are well represented. However the Axis are not and Japan has virtually no flying warbirds when compared to the Allied aircraft. In fact some of the most manufactured aircraft are, as in the case of the G3M Betty bomber nothing more then a fuselage or two remain, something that strikes me as vaguely criminal from an aviation history stand point. However to put it in context Japan was the vanquished aggressor and her aircraft were turned in and destroyed the same with Germany. Lessons were learnt however in the light of world war one and the vanquished nations were helped to re-build. But their precious air history was scrapped and melted down, a fact that as a fan of World war 2 model airplane kits I find deplorable, but understandable.
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