The twin engines in the P38 were viewed as an asset in the Pacific also. That Wasp twin radial was a massive engine.
I am now curious why the F4U had a supercharger while the P47 got a turbocharger, perhaps the less prevalent high altitude combat was a factor.
My Dad told me that the night they went down, they taxiid out on their usual plane and had a "runaway supercharger" during run up, and had to return to get another plane. That second plane was listed as having gone down due to mechanical malfunction shortly after takeoff, but my Dad said he knew he had rolled down the radar dome before they went in and that meant they were at cruise altitude. The official report and his account don't square, which is not a shock. The were in the ocean for several hours.
He said the only way he could have gotten out was that the radar dome hit water first and broke the fuselage open and he floated free, his normal egress was convoluted. The copilot went through the wind screen and the flight engineer went right after him and was relatively unhurt. I met the copilot once, his forehead was sloped back at a weird angle from the crash. The engineer was a man from NY named Lamica about whom my dad thought the world, and later he went missing on a flight to NZ for R&R.
I got in contact with his nephew, a Navy LtCmdr, in 2005, somehow, the family had no word on how Lamica was killed. Maybe his mom did but she never talked about it.
I was chatting with him when I got my own "news" and lost track after that.