Author Topic: Fork Tailed Devil: The P38... by Martin Caidin (Read 544 times)

Citabria · « **on:** July 12, 2001, 06:08:00 PM »

if your interested in a good p38 book you will love reading this one.

same author that wrote "Zero" and some other great books

oboe · « **Reply #1 on:** July 12, 2001, 06:43:00 PM »

Great read!

milnko · « **Reply #2 on:** July 12, 2001, 07:13:00 PM »

Read it.....good info and war tales.

Kinda hard to believe thae story of the Italian in the captured P-38 tailin' then killin wounded buffs, sounds like a good action film could be made of the event tho.

Citabria · « **Reply #3 on:** July 12, 2001, 08:23:00 PM »

my favorite was the mysterious p38 that returned under quite spooky curcumstances

Gunthr · « **Reply #4 on:** July 12, 2001, 09:22:00 PM »

I also recommend "Black Thursday" by Caidin ... the B-17 raids on the ball-bearing factories in Schweinfurt. The air-combat is brutal. This one stays with ya for a while....

Westy MOL · « **Reply #5 on:** July 13, 2001, 07:41:00 AM »

Definately good reads but Caiden likes to do to history what Hollywood does.

-westy

batdog · « **Reply #6 on:** July 13, 2001, 07:46:00 AM »

Hollywood...hehe, try your local High Schools text books.

I just ordered it.

xBAT

Serapis · « **Reply #7 on:** July 13, 2001, 08:06:00 AM »

Cadin's been one of my favorites for over 20 years. You will find P-38 critics who cite Cadin as being an apologist for the plane (particularly its 8th AF shortcomings). However, I've found his reasoning to make sense and to jibe with other sources.

Charon