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    Post The Assassination of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto - Browning M2 .50-caliber machinegun on a Lockheed P38 Lightning

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    That was a good story. Thanks!
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    The Lightning is my favorite aircraft. It set the standard for unique aircraft that Kelly Johnson would go on to design, including the SR-71 Blackbird.

    It makes you cry to know that at the end of the war in the Pacific brand new, straight from the factory P-38's were bulldozed off airstrips and into junk piles because they were not going to be needed and it wasn't economical to ship them home for sale.

    Tommy McGuire and Dick Bonk probably shot down over 100 Japanese aircraft each in the war, but never got credit because most combat took place out over the sea or Japanese held islands and there wasn't anyone to confirm most kills.

    A little known fact is that Charles Lindbergh was visiting in the Pacific and gave P-38 pilots invaluable information on how to extend the range of the Lightning, which made the strike possible.
    Apparently Lindbergh flew a P-38 in combat several times and shot down one or two Japanese aircraft, but it was kept secret because he was a civilian at the time and FDR hated him for his anti-war, pro-German activities before the war and ordered that Lindi would have nothing to do with the war.

    As a side note, Lindy really was a Eugenicist.
    A couple of years ago it was proved that Lindi had FOUR families.
    He was married to Ann Morrow Lindbergh and had children with her.
    After he died it was discovered that he had THREE more families in Europe.
    Two women in Germany had children with him and one of the women had a sister living in Switzerland and Lindi had children with her too.
    When this was disputed, the three families in Europe got the children blood tests proving Lindi was the father.

    At the time Lindi was working for Eastern Airlines. He'd just pack a bag and leave, not telling his American family where he was going or for how long.
    He coldly give orders to the wife and kids about what he expected them to get done in school or in the home and he'd leave.
    Months later he'd just show up at home in the USA and coldly call the family in one at a time and demand to know if they'd done what he'd ordered.
    Then in later years he just abandoned all four families and moved to Hawaii.

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