Fork-Tailed Devil: The P-38 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fork-Tailed Devil: The P-38 write by Martin Caidin. This book was released on 2016-10-05. Fork-Tailed Devil: The P-38 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. One of America's greatest military aviation historians relates the astonishing--and true--story of the only American warplane to fight in every operational theater in World War II from Pearl Harbor to Alaska and North Africa to Northern Europe.
P-38 Lightning Aces of the 82nd Fighter Group
P-38 Lightning Aces of the 82nd Fighter Group - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook P-38 Lightning Aces of the 82nd Fighter Group write by Steve Blake. This book was released on 2012-07-20. P-38 Lightning Aces of the 82nd Fighter Group available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When the 82nd Fighter Group was organized in March 1942, most of its initial pilot cadre was comprised of newly graduated staff sergeant pilots of Class 42-C – enlisted men! They learned to fly the P-38 at Muroc, in California's Mojave Desert, and then moved to the Los Angeles area to continue their training and to serve as part of its air defence. In September 1942 the group was transported to the East Coast, from where it shipped out to Ireland on the Queen Mary. By this time all its remaining sergeant pilots had been commissioned. As of VE-Day the 82nd Fighter Group's score of confirmed aerial victories stood at 548 aircraft shot down, plus a huge amount of enemy materiel – including aircraft – destroyed on the ground and the sea. It had been awarded three Distinguished Unit Citations. The cost of this success was high, however, for around 250 of the group's pilots had either been killed in action or captured.
P-38 Lightning Vol. 2
P-38 Lightning Vol. 2 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook P-38 Lightning Vol. 2 write by David Doyle. This book was released on 2019-10-28. P-38 Lightning Vol. 2 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This second of two volumes continues the P-38 story by focusing on the later, mass-produced models of this historic fighter--P-38J through P-38M. Each type is examined through carefully researched archival photos, as well as photographs of currently preserved examples. Known to the enemy during World War II as the "Fork-tailed devil," the pilots of the Lockheed P-38 Lightning were charged with the responsibility of escorting American bombers deep over heavily defended Europe during the early years of the air campaign against Nazi Germany. In the Pacific, the Lightning's long range was put to good use flying over vast expanses of ocean. Detailed text and captions illustrate not only the design and construction of the later-war Lightnings, but also their combat use in WWII. Large, clear photos, coupled with descriptive and informative captions, put the reader on the airfield and in the sky with this historic aircraft.
P-38 Lightning at War
P-38 Lightning at War - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook P-38 Lightning at War write by Joe Christy. This book was released on 1978. P-38 Lightning at War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This classic title traces the history of the Lightning from the earliest Lockheed "Model 22" through the severe compressibility problems of the prototype YP-38, to the P-38L-5, the fighter-bomber-reconnaissance aircraft of the USAAF in Italy and the Pacific. Graphically illustrated with over 200 action photographs and many eyewitness accounts, this book tells the story of a unique and innovative aircraft, revered for its adaptability and ability to limp home on one engine where other aircraft would have been destroyed.
P-38 Lightning Aces of the ETO/MTO
P-38 Lightning Aces of the ETO/MTO - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook P-38 Lightning Aces of the ETO/MTO write by John Stanaway. This book was released on 1998-06-05. P-38 Lightning Aces of the ETO/MTO available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The P-38 made its combat debut in Europe in mid-1942, the first American fighters being flown to the UK before heading further east to Twelfth Air Force units in North Africa. Its service in this theatre, and later over the heartland of Germany itself, earned the P-38 the nickname 'der gabelschwanzer Teufel' (the 'fork-tailed' devil). This volume traces the careers of many previously unknown aces within the USAAF in Europe, and helps redress the balance which has in the past seen all the 'glory' for the fighter victories in this theatre shared between the pilots of the P-47 and P-51. Some 17 pilots scored 7 or more kills on the P-38 in the ETO/MTO.
