I just want to thank everyone for reinforcing what little sanity I have left. I thought for the moment there was a serious gap in my library of WWII aviation. All the books I have say the Zero was an indeginous design too!
I guess you can chalk this one up to excessive patriotic zeal on the part of a slightly misinformed Aussie.
After all, we all know that Canada designed it and handed it over to Japan.
VBR,
Al Lowe