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Message:: [QUOTE="Martha Lynn, post: 7761833, member: 101796"]I've read a lot of books written by the guys who flew , just to see what they thought of their steeds. Each plane had drawbacks and pluses. What was the jug ? was it the air cobra 400 or something. No good as a dogfighter but would dive at incredible speed and not come unglued. It would take massive punishment and keep on keepin on. It was a poor fighter but a steep dive one pass and give it hell then speed away at 400 plus knots. Our plane inventory was poor at the outbreak but new airframes and updates to older models came along. From my understanding the P38 lighting could turn tighter than the zero zen. Imagine that. Dual fuselauge twin engine heavy fighter dukin it out with gnats. But the nose cannon and machine guns were easier to put on target. Two second burst and no more meatball. In fact, I believe that if the P38 was available for the raid mentioned in this thread it would have been a lot better aircraft. Twin 350 gallon fuel tanks were easily fitted to that airframe. Thousands of miles operational radius. Plus could carry a whopping load of bombs. But like I said, we had what we had when it came down.[/QUOTE]