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In this episode of WW2 Secrets, we uncover the astonishing story behind how American fighter pilots learned to survive by flying upside down. During the fierce air battles of WW2 over the Pacific, the Japanese A6M Zero dominated the skies with unmatched agility. Conventional tactics failed, and Allied pilots paid the price. But one desperate maneuver, born not from textbooks but from instinct, changed everything.
At 18,000 feet over the Solomon Islands, Lieutenant Richard Bong, flying his Lockheed P-38 Lightning, found himself seconds from death. Instead of climbing or turning, he rolled his aircraft completely inverted and dove straight toward the ocean. That “Split-S” move defied every training rule, yet it saved his life and opened a new chapter in WW2 aerial tactics. Soon, this inverted dive became the unspoken code among U.S. pilots, spreading across squadrons in New Guinea, Guadalcanal, and beyond.
From Thomas Lynch’s daring maneuver at Huon Gulf to Colonel Neel Kearby’s thundering P-47 dives over Wewak, pilots across the Pacific began turning gravity itself into a weapon. The result was a quiet revolution in WW2 air combat one that shifted power from the nimble Zero to the faster, tougher American fighters. What started as desperation became doctrine, shaping how pilots fight even today.
Join us as WW2 Secrets dives deep into the science, courage, and chaos behind this remarkable evolution in air combat. Discover how fear turned into innovation, how instinct rewrote the rules, and how those few seconds of red-out vision changed the skies forever.
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