1944 - The Loop Master - USA 000620 - Lockheed P-38 Lightning - Arcade Playthrough
Developer - Capcom
Publisher - Capcom
Release Date - June 20, 2000
Story
On the year 1944 AD. The world was in the midst of a big war. As a decisive battle weapon and a huge group of ships trying to reach the pole of completion, the fate of the encounter of the aircraft, which had been poised for rapid changes as new weapons, dyed the Pacific Ocean red with flames.
Here, far away from where the battles took place, there were men fascinated by these weapons. These souls kept on fighting, seeking for a naval battlefield in the Southern Ocean, but ended lost forever. Diving into this permanent battlefield, two brave men bring the ultimate conclusion.
P-38 Real World Information
The Lockheed P-38 Lightning was a World War II American propeller-driven fighter aircraft. Developed to a United States Army Air Corps requirement, the P-38 had distinctive twin booms and a single, central nacelle containing the cockpit and armament. Named "fork-tailed devil" (der Gabelschwanz-Teufel) by the Luftwaffe and "two planes, one pilot" (2飛行機、1パイロット, Ni hikōki, ippairotto) by the Japanese, the P-38 was used in a number of roles, including interception, dive bombing, level bombing, ground attack, night fighting, photo reconnaissance, radar and visual pathfinding for bombers, evacuation missions, and extensively as a long-range escort fighter when equipped with drop tanks under its wings.
A real P-38 from World War-II
The P-38 was used most successfully in the Pacific Theater of Operations and the China-Burma-India Theater of Operations as the aircraft of America's top aces, Richard Bong (40 victories), Thomas McGuire (38 victories) and Charles H. MacDonald (36 victories). In the South West Pacific theater, the P-38 was the primary long-range fighter of United States Army Air Forces until the appearance of large numbers of P-51D Mustangs toward the end of the war.