To: jim_trent; WhiskeyPapa
[P-38s] were a big success in Africa and the southern Pacific . . . . . . especially after Charles Lindberg showed the pilots in the Pacific how to double their gas mileage . . .
To: conservatism_IS_compassion
Well the American pilots knew how to fight the P-38 in the vertical. Also, the Japs didn't really believe in team work; it was all the lone wolf thing for them.
113 posted on
05/27/2003 5:00:03 PM PDT by
WhiskeyPapa
(Be copy now to men of grosser blood and teach them how to war!)
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