Pride of the Army Air Forces today is Lockheed's twin-tailed P-38 Lightning, which pilots heartily damned three years ago as clumsy and tricky. With plenty of high-altitude performance, the Lightning is now not only untricky, but a speedy, versatile performer, good for dive-bombing and troop-strafing as well as for meet ing the best of enemy fighters.
This week the Air Forces revealed that the P-38 also has another priceless quality. It is also capable of long-range cruising, an attribute never found in European fighters.
Best measure of its range is that the P-38 for months has been flown to combat areas,...
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