P-38 Found In MI Field

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Quote from: Electric_Strawberry on November 29, 2012, 09:44:42 PM
Here's another book on the P-38 that I highly recommend.  The name "Forked Tailed Devil" was given to it by Luftwaffe pilots.

I can't quite see that book from way over here... can you hold it up a bit higher so's I can try and make out the title?? 

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Wow, tha's a name you don't see much.
Martin Caiden wrote a lot of World War II aviation books that were put out by Ballantine paperbacks.  Think as a teen, you couldn't check the books in a drugstore, and not see something by him.
Vaguely recall that his best one may have been "The Ragged Rugged Warriors" on the early war fighter pilots.  Had a good section on the aerial fighting in New Guinea I think.
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The P-38 is my favorite aircraft of all time.  Here's a video of one on U-Tube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoZas43xm2U

The Confederate Air Force used to visit St Louis nearly every year in the 1980's and I always enjoyed seeing all their vintage WWII aircraft, especially their P-38.

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Quote from: Electric_Strawberry on November 30, 2012, 11:39:58 AM
The P-38 is my favorite aircraft of all time.  Here's a video of one on U-Tube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoZas43xm2U

The Confederate Air Force used to visit St Louis nearly every year in the 1980's and I always enjoyed seeing all their vintage WWII aircraft, especially their P-38.

Thanks for the video link.  The P-38 is in my to three favorite WWII planes.
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...and another WWII plane, an FM-2 "Wildcat" Fighter, pulled not from a Michigan field, but Lake Michigan...

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/12/07/world-war-ii-plane-recovered-from-lake-michigan/?intcmp=obnetwork

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