P-38 Lightning at War

The US Eighth Air Force's "twin-tailed pursuit ship," called the Lightning by the British, survived rejection by the RAF to become one of the deadliest American fighters of the war, serving with distinction in the Pacific, the North African desert, the Mediterranean, and the final assault on Germany. It was a group of Lightnings that caught Admiral Yamamoto in a daring raid that culminated in his plane being blown out of the sky, thus depriving the Japanese fleet of its commander and the Japanese fleet of its commander and the Japanese armed forces of their most brilliant strategist.