The P-38!

I had a lot of questions that I thought of after daddy died and one of them was, "Did he ever fly a P-38" (which is one of my all-time favorite fighters of World War II (Click on the P-38 link above to read about this phenomenal plane).  His first flight must have been a real Christmas present for him as the flight in No. 43-635 took place on December 26, 1943.  He logged several long flights from Great Falls to Chandler, Arizona; from Long Beach to Dallas, Texas and from Dallas, Texas to Oakland, California.  Incidentally, the Japs nicknamed the P-38, "The Fork-Tongued Devil" because of its unique design.