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P-38 Lightning

By Tom Tullis , John Stanaway

Book information

Publisher
Osprey Publishing
Year
1997
ISBN
9781855326330, 1855326337
Open Library ID
OL8993002M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
85 MB (88946905 bytes)
Series
Osprey Aircraft of the Aces No 14
Edition
illustrated edition
Pages
145\145
Topic
History
Time added
2010-02-18 13:16:04

Description

The P-38 was used on virtually every front to which the USAAF were committed, but enjoyed its greatest successes in the Pacific and China-Burma-India (CBI) theatres. The speed, range and firepower of the P-38 made it the favourite of nearly all aircrew fighting in the Solomons, New Guinea and the Philippines, and over 1800 Japanese aircraft fell to its guns. From the first encounters at the end of 1942 until the Lightning scored the final Fifth Air force victories in August 1945, these pilots made the Pacific skies very much their own battleground.

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