{"id":3506,"date":"2018-11-05T00:01:44","date_gmt":"2018-11-05T00:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/?page_id=3506"},"modified":"2018-11-05T00:01:59","modified_gmt":"2018-11-05T00:01:59","slug":"lockheed-p-38-lightning","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/things\/lockheed-p-38-lightning\/","title":{"rendered":"Lockheed P-38 Lightning"},"content":{"rendered":"

The P-38 Lightning was a twin-engined, twin-boom long range fighter and fighter-bomber, produced throughout World War II.<\/p>\n

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Lockheed P-38H-5-LO in flight (S\/N 42-67079) with Red Surround Insignia. (U.S. Air Force photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

From Wikipedia<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Lockheed P-38 Lightning<\/b>\u00a0is a\u00a0World War II<\/a>-era American piston-engined\u00a0fighter aircraft<\/a>. Developed for the\u00a0United States Army Air Corps<\/a>, the P-38 had distinctive\u00a0twin booms<\/a>\u00a0and a central\u00a0nacelle<\/a>containing the cockpit and armament. Allied propaganda claimed it had been nicknamed the fork-tailed devil (German<\/a>:\u00a0der Gabelschwanz-Teufel) by the\u00a0Luftwaffe<\/a>\u00a0and “two planes, one pilot”\u00a0(2\u98db\u884c\u6a5f\u30011\u30d1\u30a4\u30ed\u30c3\u30c8<\/span>\u00a0Ni hik\u014dki, ippairotto)\u00a0by the Japanese.[6]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0The P-38 was used for interception,\u00a0dive bombing<\/a>,\u00a0level bombing<\/a>,\u00a0ground attack<\/a>,\u00a0night fighting<\/a>,\u00a0photo reconnaissance<\/a>, radar and visual pathfinding for bombers and evacuation missions,[7]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0and extensively as a long-range<\/a>\u00a0escort fighter<\/a>\u00a0when equipped with\u00a0drop tanks<\/a>\u00a0under its wings.<\/em><\/p>\n

The P-38 was used most successfully in the\u00a0Pacific Theater of Operations<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0China-Burma-India Theater of Operations<\/a>\u00a0as the aircraft of America’s top\u00a0aces<\/a>,\u00a0Richard Bong<\/a>\u00a0(40 victories),\u00a0Thomas McGuire<\/a>(38 victories) and\u00a0Charles H. MacDonald<\/a>\u00a0(27 victories). In the\u00a0South West Pacific theater<\/a>, the P-38 was the primary long-range fighter of\u00a0United States Army Air Forces<\/a>\u00a0until the appearance of large numbers of\u00a0P-51D Mustangs<\/a>\u00a0toward the end of the war.[8]<\/a><\/sup>[9]<\/a><\/sup><\/em><\/p>\n

The P-38 was unusually quiet for a fighter, since the exhaust was muffled by the\u00a0turbo-superchargers<\/a>. It was extremely forgiving and could be mishandled in many ways but the rate of roll in the early versions was too low for it to excel as a dogfighter.[10]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0The P-38 was the only American fighter aircraft in large-scale production throughout American involvement in the war, from\u00a0Pearl Harbor<\/a>\u00a0to\u00a0Victory over Japan Day<\/a>.[11]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0At the end of the war, orders for 1,887 more were cancelled.[12]<\/a><\/sup><\/em><\/p>\n ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The P-38 Lightning was a twin-engined, twin-boom long range fighter and fighter-bomber, produced throughout World War II. From Wikipedia: The\u00a0Lockheed P-38 Lightning\u00a0is a\u00a0World War II-era American piston-engined\u00a0fighter aircraft. Developed for the\u00a0United States Army Air Corps, the P-38 had distinctive\u00a0twin booms\u00a0and a central\u00a0nacellecontaining the cockpit and armament. Allied propaganda claimed it had been nicknamed the fork-tailed … Continue reading Lockheed P-38 Lightning<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":57,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3506","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3506"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3508,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3506\/revisions\/3508"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/57"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}