From the European Theater to Pearl Harbor comes the full story of the Lockheed P-38 Lightning--the best American fighter plane of World War II--and the men who flew it. Caidin is the bestselling coauthor of Samurai! and numerous classics of military history. nOne of Americas greatest military aviation historians relates the astonishing--and true--story of the only American warplane to fight in every operational theater in World War II from Pearl Harbor to Alaska and North Africa to Northern Europe.