[ARC5] Navy Compass on P-38 Flight

[Robert Eleazer]

By the way, I guess you might wonder if there existed the capability to install a fluxgate compass in a P-38 on Guadalcanal.

In October 1943 the night fighter people on Guadalcanal gave up on using the P-70A for interceptions due to its low performance.  They took a couple of P-38G fighters, relocated the comm radios into a 160 gal drop tank, moved some of the guns further forward, added an SCR-540 radar, and put a radar operator position behind the pilot, and thus built themselves a couple of high performance night fighters.  

So the guys in the field could do quite a lot!

Wayne