References
Books
Bell, Dana, Air Force Colors Volume I – 1926-1942, Squadron / Signal Publications, Carrollton, Tx., 1979
Dublin, Louis I., and Kohs, Samuel C., American Jews in World War II – The Story of 550,000 Fighters for Freedom, The Dial Press, New York, N.Y., 1947
Freeman, Roger A., The Mighty Eighth – Units, Men and Machines (A History of the U.S. 8th Army Air Force), Doubleday and Company, Inc., Garden City, N.Y., 1970
Freeman, Roger A., Camouflage and Markings – United States Army Air Force 1937-1945, Ducimus Books Limited, London, England, 1974
Gabel, Christopher R., The U.S. Army GHQ Maneuvers of 1941, Center of Military History, Washington, D.C., 1992
Green, William, Famous Fighters of the Second World War, Hanover House, New York, N.Y., 1958.
Kinzey, Bert, P-38 Lightning in detail & scale: P-38 Lightning Part 1 – XP-38 through P-38H, Squadron/Signal Publications, Carrollton, Tx., 1998
Kinzey, Bert, P-38 Lightning in detail & scale: P-38 Lightning Part 2 – P-38J through P-38M, Squadron/Signal Publications, Carrollton, Tx., 1998
Littlefield, Robert M., Double Nickel, Double Trouble, Robert M. Littlefield, Fallbrook, Ca., 1993
Maloney, Edward T., Lockheed P-38 “Lightning”, Aero Publishers, Inc., Fallbrook, Ca., 1968
Maurer, Maurer, Air Force Combat Units of World War II, Office of Air Force History, Washington, D.C., 1983
Maurer, Maurer, Combat Squadrons of the Air Force World War II, Albert F. Simpson Historical Research Center and Office of Air Force History, Headquarters, USAF, 1982
Prien, Jochen, and Rodeike, Peter, Jagdgeschwader 1 und 11 : Einsatz in der Reichsverteidigung von 1939 bis 1945. Teil 1. 1939-1943 [Jagdgeschwader 1 and 11: Used in the Defense of the Reich from 1939 to 1945. Part 1. 1939-1943], Struve Printers, Eutin, Germany, 1994 (ISBN 3923457219 / 9783923457212; OCLC 832557295)
Prien, Jochen, and Rodeike, Peter, Jagdgeschwader 1 und 11 : Einsatz in der Reichsverteidigung von 1939 bis 1945 / Teil 2. 1944 [Jagdgeschwader 1 and 11: Used in the Defense of the Reich from 1939 to 1945. Part 2. 1944] Struve Printers, Eutin, Germany, 1994 (ISBN 3923457243 / 9783923457243; OCLC 644774281)
Shenahan, Anthony, Lockheed P-38 Lightning – A Pictorial History, Historian Publishers, John W. Caler Publications, Sun Valley, Ca., 1968
Stanaway, John, Peter Three Eight – The Pilot’s Story, Pictorial Histories Publishing Company, Missoula, Mt., 1986
Books – No Author
USAF Credits for the Destruction of Enemy Aircraft, World War II – USAF Historical Study No. 85, Albert F. Simpson Historical Research Center, Air University, Office of Air Force History, Headquarters USAF, 1978
Pilot’s Manual for Lockheed P-38 Lightning, Aviation Publications, Appleton, Wi. (undated)
Journals and Magazines
Anderson, Carroll R., The Ghost Sentai, Wings, February, 1978 (V 8 N 1)
Bodie, Warren M., SKYBOLT Part I – The Story of Lockheed’s P-38 Lightning, Airpower, March, 1976 (V 6 N 2)
Bodie, Warren M., SKYBOLT Part II – Lockheed Builds a Fighter, Kelsey Flys It, and Hap Arnold Sees That It Gets Into Production, Wings, April, 1976 (V 6 N 2)
Bodie, Warren M., SKYBOLT Part III – A New Radical Departure in Single-Sear Fighters, Lockheed’s P-38 Was Not Only a Classic Design, But the Only One of Its Type to Achieve Mass Production!, Airpower, May, 1976 (V 6 N 3)
Bodie, Warren M., SKYBOLT Part IV – Lockheed Overextends Itself; The YP-38 Encounters the Compressibility Phenomenon; The British Renege on A Contract; The Lightning Obtains Heavy Armament at the 11th Hour and Its Operational Debut is Delayed by Nearly a Year!, Wings, August, 1976 (V6 N4)
Bodie, Warren M., SKYBOLT Part V, Airpower, September, 1976 (V 6 N 5)
Bodie, Warren M., SKYBOLT Part VI – The P-38 Lightning Flies the Atlantic En Masse, The First Fighter Ever To Do So, And a New Combat Career Begins!, Airpower, November, 1976 (V 6 N 6)
Bodie, Warren M., SKYBOLT Part VII – The Lightning in Combat… North Africa, Wings, December, 1976 (V6 N 6)
Bodie, Warren M., SKYBOLT Part VIII – War Over the Mediterranean … Fighting Compressibility and the Germans!, Airpower, May, 1977 (V 7 N 3)
Bodie, Warren M., SKYBOLT Part IX – Long Range Escort Photo-Recon Plane, Dive-Bomber, The Lockheed P-38 Has Become A Triple-Threat Over the Mediterranean, Airpower, July, 1977 (V 7 N 4)
Bodie, Warren M., SKYBOLT Part X – Dueling the Luftwaffe Over Fortress Europe, Wings, October, 1977 (V 7 N 5)
Bodie, Warren M., SKYBOLT Part XI – The Cataclysmic End in Europe and the Debut of the Long Ranging Lockheed P-38 Js and Ls, Airpower, March, 1978 (V 8 N 2)
Bodie, Warren M., SKYBOLT Conclusion of the P-38 Story – The Lightning Rages Over the Pacific, Wings, August, 1978 (v 8 N 4)
Bodie, Warren M., Double or Nothing – The Story of the P-38 Chain Lightning’s Bigger Brothers – XP-49 and the XP-58 Chain Lightning!, Wings, June, 1980 (V 10 N 3)
Bodie, Warren M., Tame Lighting, Wings, April, 1990 (V 20 N 2)
Boylan, Richard L., The Search for a Long Range Escort Plane 1919-1945, Military Affairs, V 30, N 2, Summer, 1966
Frey, Royal D., General Kepner’s One and Only Goof, Kings Cliffe Remembered, Spring, 1992 (V 10 N 1)
Joel, Joseph, and Berman, Myron, My Recollections and Experiences of Richmond, Virginia, 1884-1892, The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, July, 1979 (V 87 N 3)
Olmstead, Merle C., Incident at Ludham, American Aviation Historical Society Journal, Fall, 1973, pp. 177-180.
Microfilm
38th Fighter Squadron History (through June, 1944) AFHRA Microfilm Roll AO 136 (frames 1724 to end of reel)
Websites
P-38 Lightning
Der Gabelschwanz Teufel – Assessing the Lockheed L-38 Lightning (Technical Report APA – TR – 2010 – 1201), by Carlo Kopp (Air Power Australia), at ausairpower.net
Why the P-38 Flunked in Europe, by Robert F. Dorr, at HistoryNet (From Aviation History, May, 2014)
The P-51 Mustang Historical Narrative, American Fighter Drop Tanks, and Air Superiority over Nazi Germany
(Articles by Trent Telenko at Chicago Boyz)
History Friday – MacArthur’s Fighter Drop Tanks (July 12, 2013)
History Friday: Deconstructing the P-51 Mustang Historical Narrative (September 27, 2013)
History Friday – Revisiting the P-51 Mustang Historical Narrative (December 16, 2016)
Big Week, Day 5, Feb. 24, 1944, Plus 75 Years (February 24, 2019)
A Thumbnail History of the American Fighter Drop Tank 1923-2000 (April 7, 2019)
How Air Superiority Over Nazi Germany was Really Won (September 1, 2019)
27th Fighter Squadron, 38th Fighter Squadron, and 55th Fighter Group
Little Friends (8th Air Force Fighter Groups), at littlefriends
27th Fighter Squadron, at USAF History
38th Reconnaissance Squadron (USAF), at USAF History
55th Fighter Group, at 55th.org
Nuthampstead Airfield Museum, at Station 131
Nuthampstead Airfield, at Wikipedia
H.M.T. (R.M.S.) Orion, at Wikipedia
P-38 Losses on November 29, 1943
Aircrew Remembered Kracker Luftwaffe Archive
1942 USAAF Serial Numbers (42-57213 to 42-70685) (Joe Baugher)
Biographies
Albino, Albert A., at Traces of War
Friedlich, Elaine (Ebenstein), at Geni
Friedlich, Allan L., Jr., at Geni
Friedlich, Allan L. (obituary), at EuropePMC
Hascall, John S., at MTU
Kepner, William E., Major General, at Wikipedia
Suiter, Fleming W., at Aviation Archeology
Other
The CAA Helps America Prepare for World War II (by Theresa L. Kraus, FAA Historian), at FAA.Gov
People
Bettie J. Jacobs (Cousin; Lived with Milton’s parents during war; Irving Joel was her half-brother. Both grew up in Joel home after their mother died. Martha Goodman is her daughter)
Leonard Kamsky (Friend from Richmond, knew Milton from childhood)
Ida J. Kaplan
Dr. Robert Leve (nephew of Lt. Morris Leve)
Sara F. Markham (contacted via Leonard Kamsky, her friend; best friend of Elaine Friedlich)
Maurice L. Strause, Jr. (friend from University of Virginia)
Harold J. Winston (Milton’s first cousin)
Robert W. Wood (38th Fighter Squadron Communications Officer)
And, last but hardly least, a certain visitor to this blog whose insights, observations, and speculations have contributed very greatly to the quality of this story. In a word, “Thanks!”