German Pilots Mocked the P-38 Lightning… Until Its Twin Engines Hunted Them Across Europe

Описание: The P-38 Lightning was unlike anything German pilots had ever seen—twin engines, twin booms, and a lethal climb rate that rewrote the rules of air combat. When the Lightning entered Europe in 1942, Luftwaffe veterans dismissed it as a clumsy American experiment. But by 1943–44, the P-38 was hunting bombers, shredding fighters, and escorting Allied formations deep into enemy territory. From Italy to the Mediterranean, aces like Richard Bong and Thomas McGuire turned the Lightning into one of the most feared aircraft of the war. This is the shocking story of the fighter Germany underestimated.
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Video content includes:
00:00 PART 1 — The Laugh in the Ready Room
06:27 PART 2 — First Contact in the Cold Sky
12:20 PART 3 — A Fighter the Luftwaffe Couldn’t Categorize
18:25 PART 4 — Baptism in the Mediterranean Sky
24:28 PART 5 — The Italian Crucible: Where the Lightning Became a Killer
30:41 PART 6 — The Lightning Strikes the Luftwaffe’s Nerve Center
36:59 PART 7 — The High-Altitude Duel: Lightning vs. the Luftwaffe Elite
42:43 PART 8 — The Mission Germany Said Was Impossible
48:51 PART 9 — The Day the Lightning Hunted the Hunters
54:43 PART 10 — Turning the Tide: When the Lightning Broke the Luftwaffe’s Backbone
01:00:57 PART 11 — The Lightning’s Deadliest Evolution: Precision and Ruthlessness
01:07:35 PART 12 — The Realization That Broke the Luftwaffe:The Lightning Was the Future, and the Future Had Arrived.

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