I wanted to go back for another 50 missions, but they ruled it out because I had a case of malaria that kept recurring. So I had to stay in the States and teach combat flying. I was shot down by a mosquito!
— Frank Hurlbut, P-38 pilot.
I wanted to go back for another 50 missions, but they ruled it out because I had a case of malaria that kept recurring. So I had to stay in the States and teach combat flying. I was shot down by a mosquito!
— Frank Hurlbut, P-38 pilot.
Sorry, guys – the mosquito he is referring to is the one that gave him the malaria…..P38´sare not harmful in that way 🙂
Try using the correct picture of a P-38 Lightening.It’s a bi-fuselage twin engine fighter.