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I read a book by John Baxter where he mentioned that in 1940/early 1941 the Australina goverment approached the Japanese to see if it would be possible to buy Japanese aircraft. It appears that the Japanese goverment were open to the idea and offered amoung other things the Zero with the proviso that they would not be available until the end of 1941. I was wondering how things would have gone is in late 1941 say 100 Zeros had been purchased and shipped to Australia and in they were fully in service in mid 1942 when war comes . The US and Britian could get the examine a Zero earlier than the did in OTL, thats the obvious change. The RAAF would be able to challange the IJN on equal footing would be another one.