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Step into the cockpit of a P-38 Lightning as Second Lieutenant Christopher Bartlett takes on Japanese fighters in the South ...
A pair of P-38 Lightning fighters are ambushed by German Focke Wolf 190s in this epic WWII dogfight cinematic!
James Kunkle Sr., a 95-year-old World War II veteran, looks at a restored Lockheed P-38 Lightning at the National Museum of World War II Aviation Saturday. Kunkle flew the P-38 during the D-Day ...
Use the controls at the bottom of the frame to navigate, zoom in and out, or view full-screen. With its distinctive twin-boom design, the Lockheed P-38 Lightning was the most recognizable U.S ...
Visit one of the few P-38's in the world. Visit one of the few P-38's in the world, and learn of the restoration project by the Richard I. Bong Veterans Historical Center in Superior, WI. Visit ...
It flew across the Pacific in World War II, and was scrapped and buried in Papua New Guinea afterward — but the Lockheed P-38 Lightning landed a home Thursday at the National Museum of World War ...
The Lightning increasingly excelled as a fighter-bomber armed with 2,000-pound bombs and quintuple-racks of 5” high-velocity rockets.
Before the arrival of the vaunted North American P-51D Mustang, towards the end of World War II, U.S. forces relied on other, less superlative aircraft for long-range bomber escorts—primarily ...