Bad fingers. Anyway, that's what the Germans called it.
The Japanese called it "Whispering Death." The P-38 was powered by two turbocharged Allison V-12 engines. It's actually pretty quiet. When a P-38 was coming in to straffe someone on the ground, they might not hear it until it was too late. The P-38 has always been one of my favorite airplanes partly because of the sound. Hell, the only word I can use to describe what a high-speed pass by a P-38 sounds like is "sexy."