Daryl Hunt
Your Worst Nightmare
- Banned
- #1
The P-38 was there before the P-51 and P-47 slugging it out. In Europe, it was out numbered 11 to 1 and still posted a 1 to 1 kill rate against German Fighters. The training was poor to non existant yet the pilots still flew. The P-38 was the first American Plane over Berlin due to the Bombers aborting. They went in anyway and raised havoc and almost all of them got home. You asked it to do something and it did it as well as even a specialized aircraft. The P-38 was the first Multi Mission Fighter ever made. It was maligned badly and the War Department wouldn't allow it to come off the assembly line for even one day to make badly needed changes until middle 1943. AFter that, all the bad habits were out of it and it was the best fighter in the world barring none. Of course, the piggyback trainer had a lot to do with this. Until the Piggyback trainer was introduced in mid 1943, the pilots didn't have any stick time on it with an instructor. These things costs the US how many lives?
P-38 LIGHTNING WORLD WAR II FILM "ANGEL IN OVERALLS" 31894
P-38 LIGHTNING WORLD WAR II FILM "ANGEL IN OVERALLS" 31894