sorry- P-38 sucked in a dive, plane and simple- engine problems up to the late stages of the war, great turning ability for a large plane, but the Germans figured out how to tackle the Lightning early on, and kill ratios NEVER rose ,even when the germans were losing the air war in the ETO...
for high altitude "boom and zoom", then low altitude strafign and bomb runs, you can't beat the P-47!1 and Despite the fact that my favs are the P-51B first, the spitfire IX second, overall, I'd go Jug- if you faced a experten at 15 to 20K in an FW190, he'd be pumping cannon rounds at you and...