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A review by komet2020
Fork-Tailed Devil: The P-38 by Martin Caidin
5.0
When I was growing up in the 1970s and taking pleasure in assembling model airplanes, I developed what has come to be a deep affection for the P-38 Lightning. It would be another couple of decades before I chanced across this book in a bookstore on the P-38 by Martin Caidin. It's a fantastic book offering a comprehensive history of this remarkably versatile aircraft which served on a variety of fronts during the Second World War with the United States Army Air Force (USAAF). The book is also enriched by the eyewitness accounts of pilots who flew the P-38 in combat and several illustrations.
For its time, the P-38 Lightning was a breed apart from its contemporaries with its twin boom configuration, "steering wheel" joystick, tricycle undercarriage, armament, high altitude performance, and two counter-rotating propellers. In 2015, on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of V-E Day, I was fortunate enough to see a P-38 streak across the sky over the National Mall in Washington DC. "FORK-TAILED DEVIL" is a book that I could read again and again.
For its time, the P-38 Lightning was a breed apart from its contemporaries with its twin boom configuration, "steering wheel" joystick, tricycle undercarriage, armament, high altitude performance, and two counter-rotating propellers. In 2015, on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of V-E Day, I was fortunate enough to see a P-38 streak across the sky over the National Mall in Washington DC. "FORK-TAILED DEVIL" is a book that I could read again and again.