👍👍👍👍👍🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏♥️♥️ This was my favorite WWII fighter when l was a boy. I must have built 20 plastic models of this plane. Love the video. Love the channel. God bless you and your family always.
Mr. Johnson, another expertly produced presentation. Even had a fact I never heard of or read about, the conversion of drop tanks to litter carriers. I think what comes to mind most when I think of the P-38 was the downing of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, the longest intercept of the war. Everything came together. Between the intel to the skill of those 18 pilots to the P-38 itself, all under radio silence. And then once arriving on the scene, finding two " Betty " bombers instead of one. But they got both. Japan never won another battle in the Pacific after that. Take care and God Bless, Paul from Florida. P.S. The thing I miss the most about the pandemic is the airshows. I'm having withdrawals.
Before his death Yamamoto had already started losing battles beginning with Midway, an operation he was determined to carry out in spite of objections from the army and even from some of his own staff. Yamamoto could have driven the Marines off of Guadalcanal after forcing the US fleet to withdrawal after the Battle of the Eastern Solomons. His piecemeal response allowed the Marines to hold on.
I love the P-38. IMHO the best fighter of WW-II. At the 12:00 point I was in that crowd at the Warhawk Museum. And the talk by the pilot after the airshow. It was most enlightening. Thanks for this very well produced video.
Thank you. This stuff is fun. Gets me up and going every morning. Hey -- your channel shows great enthusiasm, and your opening video is really engaging.
Since Lockheed did that red paint during the war, with a huge black-and-white YIPPEE painted on the underside of the wings, that would make a remarkable air show paint scheme today, with a historical precedent.
Nice one Fred, great photo of der Gabeschwantz Teufel. That Winter (Battle of the Bulge) in Europe was rugged. I noted one of the images from A-60 of the ramps being cleared at Beaumont-Sur-Ouse, with 386th BG Marauders in the background. My uncle, William H. Silcox flew 386th Marauders at that time there, and his scrapbook documents living in tents, chopping lots of firewood and cold weather scenes in abundance! Thanks for another excellent video presentation.
superbe vidéo!!!!! le P38 mon préféré,un look vraiment unique,en vol comme au sol!! mes beaux-parents vivaient en Normandie a l'époque,ils en ont vu beaucoup attaquer les convois allemands ,ils parlaient toujours des double-queue!!!!encore merci pour votre vidéo
Awesome footage thanks for posting my all time favorite design and aircraft ! It was a first in many ways plus no torque counter rotating props and could carry two 1000 lb bombs and ten rockets plus the four fifties and a cannon what a bunch of fire power from one fighter !! 👍👍👍👍👍🙂
They mention the counter-rotating engines. That seems like a no-brainer but I understand that the first P-38's delivered to England had both engines turning the same direction. Naturally, that was rejected.
Great video... When I was a kid I once took two p 40warhawk model kits and cut em up and made a p 38 look a like.... I don't have any pictures of it but I am thinking about doing that crazy concoction....again.... Crazy huh????... ( go ahead do it....) 😮❤ P38s
Really beautiful aircraft My father served with the 13th Air Corp and had a black and white picture of a P-38 landing. By the way what did they use for a chase plane . Great color photography.
The P-38 was used with success everywhere but the ETO where technical problems made it ineffective as an escort fighter. Although the P-38 was the first US fighter to appear over Berlin, over half of the 55th Fighter Groups Lightnings aborted on that mission. The Germans considered it easy to spot, easy to avoid, and “convenient” to shoot down. The term “Fork-tailed Devil” was created by US propaganda.
Lockheed's Tony Levier championed the P-38, and in 1944 he showed Eighth Air Force pilots a number of techniques to get better engine and dive performance. Doolittle (with some sound logistical reasons) would rather have all Eighth AF fighter groups fly P-51s than have a mix of P-51s, P-47s, and P-38s. Yes, there are questions about the veracity of the Fork-tailed devil nickname's origins, but the P-38's performance helped create 36 aces with time in the ETO and sometimes shared in the MTO. We're not ready to throw the P-38 and its pilots in the ETO/MTO under the bus 80 years after the war, but rather we stand in awe of what all the airmen accomplished in whatever aircraft they flew. Hey, thanks for watching.
@ I didn’t mean to sound like I was throwing anyone under the bus. The pilots who flew the P-38 in the ETO made a valiant effort to do their job in an aircraft that wasn’t performing well for various reasons. Tony LeVier was sent to England because of the low morale in some of the P-38 groups, the 55th in particular. He put on an impressive display, but that didn’t help pilots who were getting so cold in their cockpits they could barely function. In his autobiography Robin Olds said it took an exceptional pilot to get the max out of the P-38, which, of course, he was. Still, he and his group, the 479th Fighter Group, were happy to convert to the Mustang. Relieved from the long range escort role, the Lightning was extremely effective in ground support. Reference Warren M. Bodie’s “The Lockheed P-38 Lightning.” It is not an easy read, but is considered the authoritative book on the P-38.
The Merlin was A great engine. The P-38 was designed around the Allison with A Turbo/Super charger, It had a mechanical supercharger for first stage and A turbo charger for second stage. The Merlin 2 stage super charger was better than the Allison single stage super charger that it replaced in the Mustangs and P-40's but it wasn't better than the Super/Turbo charger Allison in the P-38. Also the P-38 Allison could have apposing rotating props. You couldn't do that with the Merlin's. And the P-38 was a very successful aircraft and was a favorite amongst the Pilots that flew it.
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I think it was one of the sweetest looking aircraft ever made. A real beauty.
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This was my favorite WWII fighter when l was a boy. I must have built 20 plastic models of this plane. Love the video. Love the channel. God bless you and your family always.
I built many over the years, also! Beautiful aircraft!
Yes it is!
And thank you, as always, for watching and commenting. First P-38 I saw was a civilian photo mapper when I was probably 15. Made a lasting impression.
@@airailimages I have seen the restored ones at air shows. Man are they beautiful! ♥️♥️ That aircraft!
Mr. Johnson, another expertly produced presentation. Even had a fact I never heard of or read about, the conversion of drop tanks to litter carriers. I think what comes to mind most when I think of the P-38 was the downing of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, the longest intercept of the war. Everything came together. Between the intel to the skill of those 18 pilots to the P-38 itself, all under radio silence. And then once arriving on the scene, finding two " Betty " bombers instead of one. But they got both. Japan never won another battle in the Pacific after that. Take care and God Bless, Paul from Florida. P.S. The thing I miss the most about the pandemic is the airshows. I'm having withdrawals.
Hey Paul, always good to hear from you. Looks like my return to air shows will be Oshkosh late this July. Yes, it's been an unusual time.
@@airailimages Cool, bring back lots of pictures.
Will do!
Before his death Yamamoto had already started losing battles beginning with Midway, an operation he was determined to carry out in spite of objections from the army and even from some of his own staff. Yamamoto could have driven the Marines off of Guadalcanal after forcing the US fleet to withdrawal after the Battle of the Eastern Solomons. His piecemeal response allowed the Marines to hold on.
Felt as if I was watching Martin Caidin's "Fork-Tailed Devil" on my monitor. EXCELLENT presentation!!!
Thank you very much. We really enjoy making this ongoing series, and it is good to hear from viewers who enjoy the videos.
I love the P-38. IMHO the best fighter of WW-II. At the 12:00 point I was in that crowd at the Warhawk Museum. And the talk by the pilot after the airshow. It was most enlightening.
Thanks for this very well produced video.
You are always welcome! Glad you were there for Warbird Roundup.
Wow, you do have some great footage of the P-38 Lightning ✔︎
Thank you. This stuff is fun. Gets me up and going every morning. Hey -- your channel shows great enthusiasm, and your opening video is really engaging.
Thanks for the video.
You are welcome!
Very good presentation. Thank you for the big effort to produce this.
You are very welcome. Thank you for watching and commenting.
This is a top notch video!
Glad you like it. Thanks.
Absolutely badass
Thanks for watching and commenting. It is appreciated.
The Forked Tailed Devil. Love the red one.
I mean, I guess that one's nice?
Since Lockheed did that red paint during the war, with a huge black-and-white YIPPEE painted on the underside of the wings, that would make a remarkable air show paint scheme today, with a historical precedent.
Nice one Fred, great photo of der Gabeschwantz Teufel. That Winter (Battle of the Bulge) in Europe was rugged. I noted one of the images from A-60 of the ramps being cleared at Beaumont-Sur-Ouse, with 386th BG Marauders in the background. My uncle, William H. Silcox flew 386th Marauders at that time there, and his scrapbook documents living in tents, chopping lots of firewood and cold weather scenes in abundance! Thanks for another excellent video presentation.
Brian, you are always welcome. That's really neat to have your uncle's scrapbook from that time and place.
Great video, very interesting, thanx a lot!
You are welcome!
Everyone's a Samurai, until the P38's show up......
Yes sir!
superbe vidéo!!!!! le P38 mon préféré,un look vraiment unique,en vol comme au sol!!
mes beaux-parents vivaient en Normandie a l'époque,ils en ont vu beaucoup attaquer
les convois allemands ,ils parlaient toujours des double-queue!!!!encore merci pour votre vidéo
C'est une histoire intéressante à propos de votre famille en Normandie voyant des P-38. Merci, comme toujours, d'avoir regardé et commenté.
Awesome footage thanks for posting my all time favorite design and aircraft ! It was a first in many ways plus no torque counter rotating props and could carry two 1000 lb bombs and ten rockets plus the four fifties and a cannon what a bunch of fire power from one fighter !! 👍👍👍👍👍🙂
You are very welcome. Glad you enjoyed it.
This was a very enjoyable video on the P-38.
Thank you very much.
outstanding, thank you
You're very welcome!
They mention the counter-rotating engines. That seems like a no-brainer but I understand that the first P-38's delivered to England had both engines turning the same direction. Naturally, that was rejected.
Great video...
When I was a kid I once took two
p 40warhawk model kits and cut em up and made a
p 38 look a like....
I don't have any pictures of it but I am thinking about doing that crazy concoction....again....
Crazy huh????...
( go ahead do it....)
😮❤ P38s
Glad you enjoyed the video. Yes, there's something compelling about splicing two airframes into one...
@@airailimages And now we have all sorts of Flight sim programs that you can do what moderlers used to do..
And you can FLY THEM!!!
😍
Really beautiful aircraft My father served with the 13th Air Corp and had a black and white picture of a P-38 landing. By the way what did they use for a chase plane . Great color photography.
The air-to-air video was made from the tail gun position, with the end cap removed, on a B-25J. Thanks for watching!
Good stuff.
Thanks!
Funny how the Air Force in now going for multi roll aircraft. Just like the P-38 in WWII.
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The P-38 was used with success everywhere but the ETO where technical problems made it ineffective as an escort fighter. Although the P-38 was the first US fighter to appear over Berlin, over half of the 55th Fighter Groups Lightnings aborted on that mission. The Germans considered it easy to spot, easy to avoid, and “convenient” to shoot down. The term “Fork-tailed Devil” was created by US propaganda.
Lockheed's Tony Levier championed the P-38, and in 1944 he showed Eighth Air Force pilots a number of techniques to get better engine and dive performance. Doolittle (with some sound logistical reasons) would rather have all Eighth AF fighter groups fly P-51s than have a mix of P-51s, P-47s, and P-38s. Yes, there are questions about the veracity of the Fork-tailed devil nickname's origins, but the P-38's performance helped create 36 aces with time in the ETO and sometimes shared in the MTO. We're not ready to throw the P-38 and its pilots in the ETO/MTO under the bus 80 years after the war, but rather we stand in awe of what all the airmen accomplished in whatever aircraft they flew. Hey, thanks for watching.
@ I didn’t mean to sound like I was throwing anyone under the bus. The pilots who flew the P-38 in the ETO made a valiant effort to do their job in an aircraft that wasn’t performing well for various reasons. Tony LeVier was sent to England because of the low morale in some of the P-38 groups, the 55th in particular. He put on an impressive display, but that didn’t help pilots who were getting so cold in their cockpits they could barely function. In his autobiography Robin Olds said it took an exceptional pilot to get the max out of the P-38, which, of course, he was. Still, he and his group, the 479th Fighter Group, were happy to convert to the Mustang. Relieved from the long range escort role, the Lightning was extremely effective in ground support. Reference Warren M. Bodie’s “The Lockheed P-38 Lightning.” It is not an easy read, but is considered the authoritative book on the P-38.
Considering the tremendous success of the DeHavilland Mosquito with Merlin engines, why were they never put on these? We put Merlins in Mustangs …
The Merlin was A great engine. The P-38 was designed around the Allison with A Turbo/Super charger, It had a mechanical supercharger for first stage and A turbo charger for second stage. The Merlin 2 stage super charger was better than the Allison single stage super charger that it replaced in the Mustangs and P-40's but it wasn't better than the Super/Turbo charger Allison in the P-38. Also the P-38 Allison could have apposing rotating props. You couldn't do that with the Merlin's. And the P-38 was a very successful aircraft and was a favorite amongst the Pilots that flew it.