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P-38 LIGHTNING

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LOCKHEED

P-38 LIGHTNING

JERRY SCUTTS

Yefim Gordon and

ergey Kommi arov

Martin W. Bowman

Steve Pace

Brad Elward

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The Crowood Press

First published in 2006 by

The Crowood Press Ltd

Ramsbury, Marlborough

Wiltshire SN8 2HR

Acknowledgements

In putting tog ther this record of the P-38

I would like to thank the following individ-

ual to and organizations:

Aeroplane Monthly; Ian Carter; Richard

Franks;

Corporation; Alain Pelletier; Imperial War

Museum Photographic Library; Richard L.

Ward; the United tates Air Force and web-

site data posted by the Smithsonian Institu-

tion via John Anthony and Terence Geary.

Contents

www.crowood.com

cum 2006

Phil Jarrett; Lockheed Aircraft

be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any

means, electronic or mechanical, including

photocopy, recording, or any information storage

and retrieval system, without permission in writing

from the publishers.

Acknowledgements

Introduction

BURBANK'S BEAUTY

ANGELS IN OVERALLS

British Library Cataloguing.in-Publication Data

A catalogue record for this book is available from

the British Library.

ISLANDS OF FIRE

ISB

18612677

AN ESCORT OF P-38s

9781

61267702

WEATHERING THE STORMS

SMILE FOR PHOTO JOE

ZERO FEET

101

SOUTHERN FRONT FINALE

109

KENNEY'S KIDS

117

PACIFIC SUPREMO

131

SPECIAL DUTIES

139

MEMORIES AND MEMORIALS

150

151

153

154

156

157

P-38 Serial Number and Variants

P-38 Fighter Group and Squadrons

F-4/F-5 Photographic Reconnais ance Units

Fate of RAF Contract Lightnings in the USA

P-38M-6 'Night Lightning' Conversions From P-38L-5

Appendix

III

Appendix

Glos ary

Index

Typefaces used: Goudy (text),

Cheltenham (headings).

Typeset and designed by

D & Publishing

Lambourn Woodlands, Hungerford, Berkshire.

Primed and bound in Great Britain by CPI Bath.

Introduction

When the prototype Lockheed XP-3 wa

shown to the S press and public for the

fwt time, in 1938, there was univer al

prai e for it incredibly sleek lines. The U

rmy Air orps had never een anything

like it; certainly no single-seat fight r wa

ever that big. And when its performance

was announc d, the praise for Lockheed

appr ach d adulation. To a great extent

rhis faith in the company's product never

waned, which in some ways cloud d judge-

ment. Under the impetu of war and rapid

rechnical advance the fact that the long-

range P-3 could actually be outpaced by a

sll1gle-engine fighter took some time to

gra p. The Lightning could certainly

first American fighter to do so - but the

tragic fact was that it could not always get

back. This was not a flaw that could be

attributed to Burbank's brilliant engineers,

but a problem that was b yond anyone's

control; one that could literally be blamed

on the weather. But ask any pilot posted to

the South Pacific and faced with flying for

several hours over water, impenetrable

jungle and murderous enemy troops what

he preferred, and the answer would come

down firmly on the side of Lockheed's

twin-boom killer.

From almost any angle the Lightning

looked the part; a deadly, menacing and

purpo ful warplane with a distinctive and

unique layout.

on D-Day, in June 1944, the upr me

Commander wanted P-38 to b fir t over

the ormandy invasion beaches, on the

ground that nob dy, not even the greenest

naval gunner, could fail to recognize them.

This narrative retells the P-3 tory with

the intention of bringing the reader a few

fact and figure , and photographs, that

hav not been fully explored elsewhere.

ertainly the P-38 can stand furth r expo-

sure, so deeply was it ingrained in th

com-

bat philosophy of the wartim

US Army

Air Force.

JERRY SCUTTS

London, 2005

cort

merican bombers to Berlin -

it wa

the

mall wonder then, that

OPPOSITE PAGE:

A magnificent study of 44-25415,

one of the 2,520 P-38l-5s, the last

and best model of the lightning.

The aluminium skin had at least

seven different tonal values,

ex-factory. Lockheed

THIS PAGE:

lockhead designed a fighter and

also turned it into the top US

reconnaissance aircraft of the

war. leading here is an F-5B-1

with a P-38J-5 behind. Lockheed

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