This is what happens with if you are not careful applying "SPF-30 Sun Tan Lotion". Fish belly tan syndrome.
I am sure alot of you have read this, but if you have not and have some time do so. It is a three part series and a pretty good read.
Der Gabelschwanz Teufel: http://home.att.net/~ww2aviation/P-38.htmlArthur Heiden, regardly electrical and mechanical failures. He stated earlier that most of the pre 38L(J) losses were self inflicted.
"Every one of these problems was solved with the introduction of the P-38L."
"Let me repeat this again and again. It can never be emphasized too strongly. It makes up the Gospel Word. The P-38L. Now there was the airplane."
"Nothing, to these pilots, after the hard winter of 1943-44 could be more beautiful than a P-38L outrolling and tailgating a German fighter straight down, following a spin or split-S or whatever gyration a startled, panicked and doomed German might attempt to initiate. You just couldn't get away from the P-38L. Whatever the German could do, the American in the P-38L could do better." (cited from [8] with permission from Arthur W. Heiden).
And to whom ever it might concern...
The first Lightnings to see combat operations were the photorecce F-4s of the 8th Photo Group, based in Australia, flying recce sorties over New Guinea and the Coral Sea. Initial deployments of P-38D and E models saw units stationed in the Aleutians and Iceland, with the first combat kill credited to a P-38E in the Aleutians in August 1942, downing a H6K Mavis recce aircraft, soon followed by the killing of a Fw200 Condor off Iceland, by a P-38D.
Mino
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