FLYBOYJ
"THE GREAT GAZOO"
The only thing that seems to go against the P-38 is cost. I dont think any other airforce could have afforded to spend so much on a fighter. I have often wondered if the real reason the RAF rejected it was not because of performance problems (they could be fixed) but because they realised it would be a maintenance hog and require such a big logistics tail.
The P-38 was anything from a "maintenance hog" when you considered the missions it had to perform and the benefits that came with operating a fighter with two engines. In the Pacific, especially during 1943, it was the only fighter that gave the USAAF the ability to take the fight to the Japanese from land bases. I guess the Mosquito was a maintenance hog as well?!?