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Historic Aviation has a WIDE variety of P-38 books, many of which are cheaper than Amazon.com's prices (We'll mark these with this --$$-- so you can spot them easily).
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TWELVE TO ONE
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$$ This book includes the never-before-available-to-the-public USAAF manual for new pilots heading to the Pacific Theater of Operations to face the Japanese. In addition to the training document, you also get biographies of contributing pilots such as Dick Bong, John McGuire and others who discuss the performance of P-38s, P-40s and other fighters. 128 pgs., 90 B&W photos, 36 color profiles. |
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Attack & Conquer
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Co-authored by P-38 Association Historian, John Stanaway, the 8th Fighter Group took the first P-39s into combat against the Imperial Japanese Navy. They added victories in P-40s and P-47s, and finally took the air war to the enemy with P-38s over Rabaul Hollandia. 500 photos, 320 pgs. |
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Battle Colors
Volume II
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Insignia and Aircraft Markings of the Eighth Air Force in World War II, Volume II: (VIII) Fighter Command
Watkins. This second volume in the Battle Colors series focuses on the Fighter Groups, Scouting Force and Special Operations units of the Mighty Eighth, depicting all known unit insignia, tactical markings and identification codes and diagramming approved specifications for the size and placement of all versions of the U.S. insignia applied to P-38, P-47 and P-51 fighter aircraft. 144 pages; 600+ color profiles, insignia, photographs and maps. |
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Black Sunday
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Through declassified records and interviews with survivors, this book examines the events of April 16, 1944, when the U.S. Fifth Air Force lost 37 aircraft - primarily A-20 Havocs but also including B-24 Liberators, P-38 Lightnings and B-25 Mitchells - to a late-afternoon frontal system that cut them off from their bases at Gusap, Nadzab and Saidor. 120 pages, B&W photographs |
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20th Fighter Group
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$$ Follow the WWII exploits of the 20th Fighter Group, flying their P-38 Lightnings and P-51 Mustangs over Europe. You'll read of such famous aces as Jack Ilfrey in his P-38 "Happy Jack's Go Buggy" and Jim Morris in his "'Til We Meet Again." But even better, you'll read of the less famous yet equally brave men who went about their task day by day, month by month. A wonderful look at what one typical Group experienced during the war. 80 pgs., 200 B&W photos, 32 color profiles and more. |
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Happy Jack's Go Buggy
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A Fighter Pilot’s Story
By Jack Ilfrey. Fly through the skies with Ilfrey in his P-38 as he and his unit, the famed 94th Fighter Squadron, become the first group of American aircraft to fly from the USA to England. Thrill to the stories of aerial combat over North Africa as Ilfrey becomes one of America’s first WWII air aces. Over 190 B&W and color photographs, 3 color aircraft profiles, 128 pages. |
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See more P-83 books at the Historic Aviation website.
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Designer of almost every outstanding Lockheed aircraft from the P-38 to the awesome Blackbirds, Kelly Johnson emerged from a childhood of poverty and obscurity to make his mark on the aviation world. His A-12/YF-12/SR-71 was secretly flying at Mach III+ long before other designers even admitted it was possible. This is the book the CIA didn’t want published because of the sensitivity of some of Lockheed’s projects. The book doesn’t print any secrets, but it does reveal details on the development of many famous (and infamous) airplanes. 210 pgs.
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