I never knew that any of the active Tuskeegee fighter groups were equipped with P-38’s. That alone would have had me checking this guy’s story.
I also knew that the best plane they flew was the P-51 Mustang.
“The Tuskegee Airmen initially were equipped with Curtiss P-40 Warhawks fighter-bomber aircraft, briefly with Bell P-39 Airacobras (March 1944), later with Republic P-47 Thunderbolts (JuneJuly 1944), and finally with the aircraft with which they became most commonly associated, the North American P-51 Mustang (July 1944).”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_Airmen
They flew P-339s, P40s, P47s, and P51C and P51Ds. The only major USAAF pursuit craft they DIDNT fly was the P38 Lightning.
I think the picture of the P-38 was posted as a metaphor for something that crashed, i.e. the guy’s story.