P-38 Lightning | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 04/06/2019

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00:02:11 1 Design and development
00:09:20 1.1 XP-38 and YP-38 prototypes
00:13:00 1.2 High-speed compressibility problems
00:30:32 1.3 Range extension
00:34:56 2 Operational history
00:35:22 2.1 Entry to the war
00:37:13 2.2 European theater
00:49:46 2.3 Pacific theater
00:54:02 2.3.1 Isoroku Yamamoto
00:55:29 2.4 Service record
00:59:10 2.5 Postwar operations
01:04:26 3 Production
01:04:58 3.1 P-38D and P-38Es
01:07:33 3.2 P-38Fs and P-38Gs
01:13:54 3.3 P-38J, P-38L
01:24:12 3.4 Pathfinders, night-fighter and other variants
01:32:09 4 Variants
01:38:48 5 Operators
01:39:26 6 Noted P-38s
01:39:36 6.1 YIPPEE
01:40:25 6.2 Glacier Girl
01:41:39 7 Surviving aircraft
01:41:48 8 Noted P-38 pilots
01:41:59 8.1 Richard Bong and Thomas McGuire
01:43:08 8.2 Charles Lindbergh
01:46:23 8.3 Charles MacDonald
01:46:46 8.4 Martin James Monti
01:47:09 8.5 Robin Olds
01:47:49 8.6 John H. Ross
01:48:32 8.7 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
01:50:40 8.8 Clay Tice
01:51:03 8.9 Adrian Warburton
01:51:51 9 Specifications (P-38L)
01:57:06 10 Popular culture
01:58:12 11 Notable appearances in media
01:58:22 11.1 Documentaries
01:59:57 12 See also



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The Lockheed P-38 Lightning is a World War II–era American piston-engined fighter aircraft. Developed for the United States Army Air Corps, the P-38 had distinctive twin booms and a central nacelle containing the cockpit and armament. Allied propaganda claimed it had been nicknamed the fork-tailed devil (German: der Gabelschwanz-Teufel) by the Luftwaffe and "two planes, one pilot" (2飛行機、1パイロット, Ni hikōki, ippairotto) by the Japanese. The P-38 was used for interception, dive bombing, level bombing, ground attack, night fighting, photo reconnaissance, radar and visual pathfinding for bombers and evacuation missions, and extensively as a long-range escort fighter when equipped with drop tanks under its wings.
The P-38 was used most successfully in the Pacific Theater of Operations and the China-Burma-India Theater of Operations as the aircraft of America's top aces, Richard Bong (40 victories), Thomas McGuire (38 victories) and Charles H. MacDonald (27 victories). In the South West Pacific theater, the P-38 was the primary long-range fighter of United States Army Air Forces until the appearance of large numbers of P-51D Mustangs toward the end of the war.The P-38 was unusually quiet for a fighter, since the exhaust was muffled by the turbo-superchargers. 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. The P-38 was the only American fighter aircraft in large-scale production throughout American involvement in the war, from Pearl Harbor to Victory over Japan Day. At the end of the war, orders for 1,887 more were cancelled.