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P-38 Lightning Aces of the Pacific and CBI. - Cranston Military Prints

P-38 Lightning Aces of the Pacific and CBI.


P-38 Lightning Aces of the Pacific and CBI.

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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Best known as leader of the legendary Zemke's Wolfpack, his famous 56th Fighter Group was the top scoring Fighter Group in the European Theater. He pioneered the use of the P-38 Droop Snoot as a bomb aiming aircraft which led the bomb-loaded P-47s on to the target with great success. One of the outstanding fighter leaders of the war, his personal tally was 17.5 victories. He died in 1994.

Clipped Signature - Hub Zemke.		 Flew the P-38 Lightning with the 479th Fighter Group in England, later converting to the P-51 Mustang. He was the top-scoring P-38 Ace in the Group, and the leading scorer on the P-51 too. Credited with 14 victories in 82 missions, he was the first pilot to shoot down the jet-rocket powered Me163 Komet. Post-war he remained in the Air Force, retiring in 1968. He died in 2015.

Clipped Signature - Arthur Jeffrey.		It was during the inter-war period that a reawakening interest in twin engined fighter design prompted several countries to investigate a number of revolutionary concepts, of these only Lockheed's sleek and unconventional P.38 was to be put into large scale production, proving to be a versatile and dominant fighter possessed of extremely long range, good speed and manoeuverability and a formidable armament. When production ceased in 1945, 9,923 examples of the P38 Lightning had been delivered.

Fork Tailed Devil (Lightning) by Ivan Berryman.		 The highest scoring US pilot of the Second World War, Richard Bong, is depicted in his personal P.38J <i>Marge</i>, claiming just one of his 40 confirmed victories. Insisting that he was not the greatest of marksmen, it was Bongs habit to manoeuvre to impossibly close distances before opening fire on his opponents. His eventual total may well have been greater than 40, as a further 8 probables could be attributed to him, together with 7 damaged. He was killed whilst testing a P.80 jet for the USAF in August 1945.

Richard Bong by Ivan Berryman.
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