On July 15, 1942, six P-38 Lightning fighter aircraft and two B ... and the United Kingdom, plans to return next summer to begin the extraction process of the P-38. Like during the recovery ...

Original plans for the air base were to train B-25 ... Along with the Fourth Air Force came the Lockheed P-38 Lightning, appropriately named by the Germans as “the forked-tailed devil ...

P-38 Lightning Strikes in the Pacific The late, great Maj. Richard Ira “Dick” Bong , America’s “Ace of Aces” as mentioned above, scored all 40 of his aerial kills against Imperial ...

Col. Robin Olds, who combat career spanned the Korean and Vietnam Wars with 16 kills, began his tally with a Lightning. Perhaps the P-38’s most legendary mission occurred on April 18 ...

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 ...

With its distinctive twin-boom design, the Lockheed P-38 Lightning was the most recognizable U.S. fighter in World War II, and accounted for more Japanese aircraft losses than any other American ...