Board Thread:Timeline Discussions/@comment-7559950-20130911012534/@comment-3428312-20150319234816

The River Nile-2 wrote: I once heard that OTL Japanese Zero fighters had unarmourd cockpits leading to lots of unnecessary pilot deaths. ATL they are armoured and the pilots survive and ether parachute out or crash land if possible. This leads to more fight  crews being alive at the end of the war to fight in Okinawa and Iwa Jima. Thing is though, the Zero basically being a flying gas can is what allowed it to be so manueverable. If they start straping armour on to it, early war Allied fighters will find a much more even match.