Aircraft of the Aces P-38 LIGHTNING ACES OF THE PACIFIC AND CBI. Osprey Aviation

Description: Aircraft of the Aces P-38 LIGHTNING ACES OF THE PACIFIC AND CBI. + 13" x 18" Illustrated Poster1997 - Osprey Aviation - Military Book Club 96 pages with b&w and color illustrations and b&w photos. 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 favorite 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. 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 in the P-38. Table of ContentsIntroduction/Early Operations/The Yamamoto Mission/Wewak, Rabaul and Hollandia /Lessons from Hollandia/The Philippines/P-38 Aces of the CBI/Bong and McGuire/Appendices

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