The P-38: When Lightning Strikes
https://www.lockheedmartin.com/us/100years/stories/p-38.html
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Within six months, as the P-38 showed its versatility in North Africa, a lone hysterical German pilot surrendered to soldiers at an Allied camp near Tunisia, pointing up to the sky and repeating one phrase—“der Gableschwanz Teufl”—over and over.
Once the phrase was translated, U.S. officials realized the focus of the pilot’s madness. The P-38 had been given a new nickname: the “fork-tailed devil.”
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One comment I read claimed the OSS created the “fork-tailed devil” name as propaganda.
Read 4th comment.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBcvm9bmHDA
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