P-38 Lightning

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P-38 Lightning

$225.00

P-38 lightning is a hard copy  book by Jesse Alexander published by Motorbooks International, Osceola, Wisconsin 1990.  This book is in NEW condition and was was purchased new by me at a aces dinner and book signing in Tustin, California in 1992.  It is in new condition, never read and stored since purchase.  It tells the story with words and pictures of the P-38 and its pilots and missions. This book traces the history of Lockheed's P-38 Lightning fighter plane, and provides a detailed look at the restoration of one of them.  It also illustrates with pictures and words the restoration of the classic American warbird P-38

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Col Rex T. Barber  5 victories   
credited with the destruction of Admiral Yamamoto’s plane on the April ‘43 mission.


Col.  John  W. Mitchell  15 victories                    
flew 457 combat missions in the Pacific, including the famous ‘Yamamoto’ raid in April 1943

Col. Bob De Haven    14 victories  P-40 and P-38
Three Distinguished Fling Cross awards.  Following war and was Howard Hughes personal pilot for 30 years

Col. Richard "Dick' Willsie  3 victories                     
Served in 
 ww2, Korea and Vietnam

Col. Joseph A. Kuhn   1 victory  

Franklin D. Hurlbut  9 victories

Lt Pete Madison                            
Pete Madison P-38 WW2 pilot and co-founder of Palm springs Air Museum

Stumpy Hallinger                           

ONE OTHER SIGNATURE
   

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