P-38 CRASH

I have just been reading Aviation Archeology on a web site in England and it brought back a memory of a crash that I and several others witnessed while I was at Chelveston, England in 1944. We were in the 422dn Sq. of the 305th BG. One day we heard a plane, which seemed to be stunting or "hot-dogging" over our Field. Of course this being in the middle of the day, and on a rare clear day, we all ran outside to see what was happening. A P-38 came hedgehopping across our Quonset hut cutting the wire radio antenna someone had put up on our barracks. He then hung that plane on its props and went out of sight. As we turned to go back into the barrack we heard a scream of this plane coming straight down. As the saying goes, 'He dug his own grave." Don't know if the plane and body were recovered or not. This crash site, I think, was south and a little east of the Chelveston Air Base. I have read since then that the P-38 Lightening was difficult to fly, and that when it was in a dive that the controls were reversed and that if the pilot didn't remember this, it would cost his life.