P-38 Lightning at war

By Joe Christy

This classic title traces the history of the Lightning from the earliest Lockheed "Model 22" through the severe compressibility problems of the prototype YP-38, to the P-38L-5, the fighter-bomber-reconnaissance aircraft of the USAAF in Italy and the Pacific. Graphically illustrated with over 200 action photographs and many eyewitness accounts, this book tells the story of a unique and innovative aircraft, revered for its adaptability and ability to limp home on one engine where other aircraft would have been destroyed.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0684157403
• ISBN13: 9780684157405
• Release Date: January 1978
• Publisher: Scribner
• Length: 143 Pages
• Weight: 3.86 lbs.