Lockheed P-38 Lightning - successful over five continents

[Graham Boak]

Calling the Phillipines part of Asia rather than Oceania seems special pleading.

The P-38 however did score kills in Burma and (I believe) in China.

[knusel]

The P-38 scored 157 CBI kills.
The top P-38 ace in the CBI was Walter Duke, 10 kills.
Can you tell me the locations of Richard Bong's kills 26-31 ?

[Frank Olynyk]

Michael,

They are in my book, Stars and Bars, as are the claims for all other American aces after WW1. You should get a copy, from the used book market, since it is long out of print, but readily available.

Enjoy!

Frank.

[knusel]

Good afternoon Frank,

meanwhile, I found that Richard Bong scored his first 24 kills over what is now the country of Papua New Guinea, then 6 kills over Indonesia and then 10 kills over the Philipines.
I didn't find Stars And Bars at the German amazon but I'll keep my eyes open for it !

Michael

[Frank Olynyk]

Michael

I found one copy of Amazon.de, about 10 on Amazon.com, and about 11 on ABEBooks. Probably a lot of overlap between Amazon.com and ABEBooks. Two of the dealers on ABEBooks are in the UK, which would reduce the postage from that for a US book dealer. I don't remember the price comparison between the UK and German dealers.

The book is 668 pages, not the 696 that seems to be what everyone reports. Published in 1995 at $69.95, and 45 pounds. Out of print for probably 20 years. Some updates to it are in the back of Aces High, Volume 2.

Enjoy!

Frank.

[knusel]

Good evening Frank,

I've found it, too:
https://www.amazon.de/Stars-Bars-Tri...4160855&sr=8-1
108,95 Euro but Xmas is ahead...

Cheers,

Michael

[knusel]

...STARS AND BARS reveals that William Sloan scored 5 kills over Africa and 7 kills over Europe. Does anybody know a P-38 ace with a higher score over the continent of Africa ?

Cheers,

Michael