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P-38 Lightning Aces of the Pacific and CBI

By: Osprey

Type: Hardcover

Product Line: General Military - Modern

MSRP old price: $38.88


Product Info

Title
P-38 Lightning Aces of the Pacific and CBI
Publisher
Category
Author
John Stanaway, Tom Tullis
Publish Year
1997
Pages
96
Dimensions
7.5x10x.5"
NKG Part #
2148214996
Type
Hardcover

Description

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.