The Lockheed P-38 Lightning was never intended to be a fighter airplane. It was designed to intercept and destroy enemy bombers. This is the story of pilot and plane in development and combat around the skies of Europe, North Africa and the Pacific during World War II.
One of America's greatest military aviation historians relates the astonishing--and true--story of the only American warplane to fight in every operational theater in World War II from Pearl Harbor to Alaska and North Africa to Northern Europe.