If the P-38J was a fast food meal, what would it be?

My grandfather was a mechanical engineer who worked on this plane, designed things like throttle linkages and such. He did a lot in his life, really miss him.

>>34609725
wasn't it fast food meal for japs already

>>34609740
My grandfather got kicked out of the navy for being too drunk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AM94EFNizOY

>>34609725
Hot dog. Dog in the middle, buns on either side.

>>34609834
my grandfather got kicked out of the navy for sneaking booze to peoples grandpas

File: random-6.jpg (103KB, 900x598px) Image search: [Google]

103KB, 900x598px

>>34609725

>>34609869
Not just a hotdog, but one of those footlog hotdogs from sonic.

lightning is known because it was the plane which killed a well known french writer antoine de saint-exupery who piloted one of those

>>34609930
Sad.

>>34609958
Oh come on now, the P-38 well deserves it's recognition. It's the plane that killed Admiral Yamamoto!

>>34609725

Double-double.

The Black Widow is a Double-double Animal Style.

File: grill-cheese[1].jpg (46KB, 445x334px) Image search: [Google]

46KB, 445x334px

>>34609725

Double grilled cheese sandwich

File: p38 vs p38.jpg (73KB, 1266x450px) Image search: [Google]

73KB, 1266x450px

>>34609725
Hey /k/, which would win in a fight. A P-38, or a P-38?

>>34609958

Flying an unarmored recon plane through enemy territory during a war does have its risks.

>>34610143
>grilled cheese with no ham
Why even bother?

>>34610171

Why have sex with a condom on?

>>34610157
>P-38 tries gun-running the can-opener
>crashes

P-38 wins... but which one?

>>34610177
I ask myself that every time I put on a rubber. It's like puddle jumping in waders man

>>34610165
>an unarmored recon plane
i have read his book how he piloted an armored recon plane, bloch mb.170 with a crew of 3 with a dedicated gunner, it seems it wasn't of a much difference when fighters tried to pursue them

>>34609725
I've seen interviews with Japanese pilots. Apparently they found the Lightning's shape awkward to shoot at.

>>34610083
>StruckByLightning.ww2

>>34609740
My grandfather designed doors and electric motors for the space shuttle. I miss him too.

>>34610379
My grandfather shot monkeys out of the trees in Burma for the locals, alternating between a Thompson and an M1 Carbine.

>>34610334
from what i gather they usually simply couldn't catch it

btw that tail thing of it is highly vulnerable, more than the ordinary elevator

funnily how in warthunder lightnings are easily slaughtered by japs

my grandfather killed communists in cqb and guided air strikes in Korea

>>34610417
Every video game that has involved the P-38 has gotten it all wrong but at the same time makes the P-51 into super stunt plane.

File: 60c80660236d661aefd67c6594d1a956--military-academy-cecil-beaton.jpg (102KB, 736x763px) Image search: [Google]

102KB, 736x763px

>>34609740
My grandfather was in Nanjing during the Japanese invasion.

>>34610402
My grandfather was a vacuum cleaner salesman. Apparently a very lonely woman offered to marry him in exchange for catering to his every need and even never needing to work again. He declined, and she chased him back to his car begging him to stay.

>>34610443
I mean, 51 wasn't stunt-plane tier, but it was breddy gud.

>>34610443
well, in wt the real shit it's spitfires

anyway i personally like thunderbolts and naval fighters more because air cooling > water cooling

mustang also looks as a pregnant girl

>>34610496
Yeah, but that cooling assembly added a little extra speed to it.

My grandfather got kick out of the Navy for fucking drunk swabbies and selling booze to sailors who sold it to drunk swabbies who were too drunk to prevent themselves from being fucked.

>>34610244
Worth it though.

>>34609740
My grandpa designed sights for (I think) the m1 abrams. He's still around but he's doing chemo for cancer right now.

>>34609834
>>34609876
One of my grandpas lost 2 fingers manning an aa gun on a destroyer escort shooting at kamikazees at okinawa. 3rd class radioman.

The other grandpa smuggled rum up from the coast of brazil "hunting nazi subs" on a flying boat. He made cheng.

>>34609725
>If the P-38J was a fast food meal, what would it be?
Screw that. If the P-38J was an girl, what kind of anime stereotype would it be?

File: 0563010.jpg (102KB, 726x496px) Image search: [Google]

102KB, 726x496px

>>34609740
my great grandfather was a gunner on a destroyer in 1945 when in got hit by a kamikaze, he was the only one at his AA gun to survive
pic related is where he was

>>34610452
what was he doing there?
> those helmets

>>34610452
So how did he enjoy the Japanese cock in his ass
>>Ohhhhhh yeah

>>34611403
Here's his ship, unknown date. My grandpa is circled in red

File: PaulGBaker.jpg (908KB, 2350x1787px) Image search: [Google]

908KB, 2350x1787px

>>34611513
forgot pic

>>34611403
>>34611513
>>34611523
that ship wouldn't happen to be the USS Braine would it?

>>34611552
USS Paul G. Baker, a Buckley class destroyer escort. The USS Braine was a Fletcher class destroyer.

File: __original_drawn_by_yonezuka_ryou__af744854c9b3a53212e0a818726a5703[1].jpg (269KB, 1320x920px) Image search: [Google]

269KB, 1320x920px

>>34611427

>>34609740
My great-uncle flew one of these in IBC and got friendly fired, destroyed an engine on "The biggest damn tree in China" while strafing japs and killed an unmarked British recon plane. I never met him but he was a fantastic old man and a functional alcoholic. I miss him without ever meeting him.

>>34611562
I see, I just thought it was funny because my great grandfather was on a destroyer that got hit by a kamikaze at Okinawa

>>34611574
Yeah she only shot at kamikazes, didn't get hit. She did hit a whale on the way back to the states though.

>>34611567
>mustang
>no belly radiator

>>34611590
poor whale

>>34609740
my grandmother assembled p-38s during the war

>>34611633
Navy ships still hit whales. Buddy in the Navy got in trouble because he was a lookout when they hit a whale, despite the fact that they were sailing through thick fog and it was underwater. Fucking whales man.

>>34611567
>North American P-51
I can't imagine what a South American P-51 would be like.

>>34611403
my grandpa got off two ships that sank because of kamikaze attacks. IIRC he was on the USS Attu at the end of the war. He lied about his age after pearl harbor to get into the navy (he was 16). his family was hit pretty hard by the dust bowl and there was guaranteed food and pay in the navy.

>>34611745
Probably rides a motorbike and robs people.

>>34609740
My grandfather designed spaceship parts for the Gemini and Apollo missions

>>34612958
fuck yeah space

>>34609740
My grandfather is the president of Nintendo.

>>34610157
Nice!