On May 3, 11:35 am, Vince wrote:
Jack Linthicum wrote:
On May 3, 10:55 am, "TMOliver" wrote:
"Daryl Hunt" wrote ...

Speaking of Doofus's and you show up. One person already showed two links
that they were around as camera ships in the Actives up until 1959. But
don't let the facts get in the way of becoming a contributing member of
the
404thk00ks. You live it down well.
No, they haven't. There were, unless you can find a competent cite, one
with any hint of factual nature, no P-38 derived photo birds in service in
1959 or in the years immediastely preceding. You don't seem to comprehend
that P-38s were quick to leave the service because there were in inventory,
both for conventional and photo missions literally thousands of more capable
a/c gathering dust until Korea, and even Korea's needs were not great enough
to summon elderly photo birds with less speed and range than the P-51
derivatives used for low altitude work. As late as 1957, there may have
been a couple of TB-25s around for station "hack" service in the Training
Command, and B-26s (NA, Not Martin), were still in ANG service (and used by
the CIA/Cuban force strikes connected with the Bay of Pigs), but you're
going to have to "show" us P-38s somewhere other than in your agaonized
dreams before anybody will believe you...

To say that you are full of **** remains grotesque understaement. You're
simply clueless, fallen well over the edge into "wackodom". You ought to be
ashamed of yourself (in fact, probably would be, were you not too simple
minded to comprehend that you've been emabarrassed so often as to have all
potential credibility.

TMO

http://www.p-38online.com/recon.html

A quick and logical explanation for the death of the P-38, P-4 and P-5
was the birth of the U-2. Hardly likely that two such systems,
especially with the U-2's superior altitude performance, would co-
exist.

not really
The U2 was not suited for battlefield reconnaissance. USAF tried the
Canberra but it was a failure and then the RB-66 derived from the
skywarrior which was a success

Vince

They were used for that purpose in Cuba, one got shot down.

By October 19 the U-2 flights (then almost continuous) showed four
sites were operational.

and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_U-2