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In the US there's a persistent rumor that the Zero was developed from Howard Hughes' H-1 racer, an equally loony assertion. Mitsubishi's design chief, Jiro Horikoshi, contributed to two books that I know of, including a fairly technical tome published by (IIRC) Univ. of Wash. Press many years ago. In both books he describes the internal battles involving design philosophy--it was clearly a Japanese concept. As a couple of surviving 1942 fighter pilots have said, "If the Japs copied that design from us, then why in hell didn't WE build it?"
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