A review by dlsmall
Fork-Tailed Devil; The P-38 Lightning by Martin Caidin

4.0

3.5/5, rounded up from the nostalgia of my youth. This was one of those WW2 books that I loved in the 70s. I still found the first half to be pretty compelling, detailing the development of the various models of the plane in the European Theater. I found the back half, The Pacific, to be inferior in writing-style, often due to wholesale insertion of personal narratives…and the Pacific was where a ton of the plane’s legendary accomplishments took place.