P-38 Lightning aviation history: how a heavy Lockheed fighter beat the Mitsubishi Zero in Pacific air combat. This WWII fighter aircraft, warbird, and military aviation story covers dogfight tactics, boom and zoom, and the Fifth Air Force over New Guinea.
Between October 1942 and January 1943, P-38s over New Guinea lost only two planes to Japanese fighters while downing an estimated twenty-three to twenty-eight. And they weren’t flying a better dogfighter. There was one rule that made the whole thing work — and this Short holds it back for the full episode.
Subscribe to Giants of the Sky and watch the complete P-38 Lightning story to see why the heaviest fighter in the Pacific beat the one that could out-turn it.
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