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Kenney brought Lindbergh to train all his guys on tricks of the trade to extend range, there was tons they could do in the p38s and 47s to go further beyond strapping on more bags.

I will say the ETO was a whole different beast when it came to flying escort missions, having enough range was not enough. that why it took both proper range range of the p51 and doctrine to go and mix it up with german fighters before they could confidently try to win air superiority.

in the pacific there would be 1000 carrier planes BTFOing everything before the land based planes even started to operate over japanese airspace.