Tainan Kokutai Zero Fighters in Tarakan Island , february 1942. 

Zero Fighters in Tarakan Island

Soldiers of the 18th division's Kawaguchi Detachment during the invasion of Borneo, December 1941.

 Kawaguchi Detachment in Borneo 

Zero Fighters of the Rengo Kōkūtai squadron in China, september 1940.                                                                     the Zeros scored their first air-to-air victories when 13 A6M2s led by Lieutenant Saburo Shindo attacked 27 Soviet-built Polikarpov I-15s and I-16s of the Chinese Nationalist Air Force, shooting down all the fighters without loss to themselves