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When a Civilian Engineer Made the P-38 Lightning Nearly Invincible


June twenty-sixth, nineteen forty-four. The humid air hung thick over Hollandia Air Base in Dutch New Guinea as sweat dripped from the faces of pilots gathered around a makeshift table. Lieutenant Colonel Charles MacDonald was locked in a game of chec officer when a shadowkers with his operations fell across the board. The man standing at the entrance introduced himself with quiet confidence, but MacDonald barely looked up from his next move.

Charles Lindbergh. The name should have meant something, but MacDonald was focused on the game. Then it hit him. The Charles Lindbergh was of miles from civilization, asking standing in their crude recreation hall, thousands to discuss combat operations with America's hottest P-38 Lightning fighter group.

What that moment was that this neither man realized in interruption would revolutionize long-range fighter warfare in the Pacific. The techniques this civilian would demonstrate overd the combat radius of the twin the next six weeks would exten-engine Lockheed P-38 by hundreds of miles, transforming missions that pilots considered suicide runs into routine operations.


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