Japan Was Shocked by the P-38 Lightning — After Underestimating It, They Paid the Price

Описание: Japan Was Shocked by the P-38 Lightning — After Underestimating It, They Paid the Price
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In the opening years of World War II, the Pacific belonged to Japan. The Zero ruled the sky—light, agile, and deadly. Allied pilots learned quickly that once a Zero latched onto your tail, escape was almost impossible. Confidence turned into arrogance. Supremacy felt permanent.

Then the Americans changed the game.

Out of the clouds came a fighter unlike anything Japan had faced before. Twin engines. Twin tails. Brutal firepower. The P-38 Lightning wasn’t built to turn with the Zero—it was built to hunt it. Faster in a dive. Higher in a climb. Deadlier at long range. Japanese pilots who once laughed at American aircraft suddenly found themselves unable to outrun or outclimb their enemy.

This documentary traces the moments when Japan’s air dominance began to collapse—from savage dogfights over New Guinea, to the slaughter at the Battle of the Bismarck Sea, to the audacious Yamamoto Mission that decapitated Japan’s leadership in the sky. At the center stands Richard Bong, America’s top ace, and the machine that carried him to legend.

Through engineering brilliance, raw courage, and unforgiving aerial combat, the P-38 Lightning rewrote the rules of the Pacific War—and taught Japan that the sky was no longer theirs.
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