AZrailwhale
Diamond Member
The Lightning was the fighter that took the war to the Luftwaffe and fought it over its own bases. At the time there was no other allied fighter with that ability.While there were fighters that did something better than the Lightning but the #2 in that category would go the the 38. And the 38 was flying before the 51 or even the 47 were in service in mass numbers. And that was the time when the FW-190 and ME-109 outnumbered the 38 by 11 to one. The first Allied Fighter or Bomber to fly over Berlin during the war as a flight of P-38s. No matter what you asked of the P-38, it was either #1 or #2 in all categories.