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Fork-Tailed Devil: P-38

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Martin Caidin (1927-1997) was a qualified pilot who loved aeronautics and wrote nearly 50 books, many about history and airplanes.

This book from Ballantine War books tells "for the first time" a good story, "the incredible true story of the fifnest fighting machine of WWII-and the brave Americans who flew it." With Martin Caidin's knowledge, experience, and skill plus the use of 32 pages of photographs the reader can get quite alot of information concering the P-38 and its pilots.

In 1961 Caidin was one of probably the last to ever fly in a B-17 formation across the Atlantic from the U.S. to Britain. He also flew in the movie, The War Lover. He also was involved with the Luftwaffe Junkers 52 number 5489 restoration which after his death was sold to Lufthansa, and the plane still flies today on VIP missions. Caidin was recognized as not only an author but an authority as well. Books such as this one and another I have in my war library, BLACK THURSDAY, give enjoyment and understanding to anyone interested in air warfare.

The P-38 was a brand new type of aircraft and the men who flew them were of a different breed, too. This is the plane and its men who "swept the skies over Europe, Africa, and the Pacific.

Semper Fi.