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Lockheed P-38 Lightning part 2, how a deadly high altitude fighter nearly killed its own pilots

The P 38 Lightning shot down more enemy aircraft than any other US fighter in the Pacific, yet early pilots faced lethal dive lockups, frozen cockpits, and engine failures that nearly doomed the ...
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P-38 Lightning Aces 1942-43 / John Stanaway

The first P-38s became operational with the 1st Fighter Group in April 1941, and the initial combat deployments were made in Alaska, the Southwest Pacific and North Africa during the latter part of ...