July 10, 1942: Pilot LT. Bill Thies Spots Crashed Japanese Plane “Akutan Zero” Allowing Allied Forces to Examine and Deconstruct The Japanese War Plane for the First Time

I always get a kick out of seeing headlines like this and going "Oh! That's the Alaskan Zero!" It's taken me a long time to acquire this sort of knowledge, which is growing less common as time progresses.