345th Bomb Group and others

About forty-five years ago I saw a fiction book based on the "Air Apaches" in James Thin's bookshop in Edinburgh (the ral Edinburgh, Scotland ). Stupidly I did not buy it at the time and bought Saburo Sakai's autobiography and a fiction book by Martin Caidin (now lost). I still have the Sakai book but not the Caidin fictional P-38 fighter novel. I'd like both so can anyone tell me titles?

Also I once encountered an american novel about the Pacific war where the war does not end in 1945. It is specifically set in the first years post-1945, and it's based around an american pilot. Does anyone know what it might be?

Testing you chaps but recent replies to my other obscure enquiries gives me hope

Best regards

Keith