When lightning strikes: How the Lockheed P-38 proved its versatility in combat

Discover the origins and the major variants that made the Lightning a legend.
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The Story of the P-38 Lightning: America’s Twin-Boomed WWII Powerhouse

The Lockheed P-38 Lightning is an aircraft that opted to pen its name in capital letters in the annals of war flight. Modeled as a high-altitude fighter, this aircraft not only displayed phenomenal ...
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P-38 Lightning: The Backbone of America’s World War II Air Force

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 the ...
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Lockheed P-38J-10-LO Lightning

Air Corps test pilot and P-38 project officer, Lt. Benjamin S. Kelsey, first flew the aircraft on January 27. Losing this prototype in a crash at Mitchel Field, New York, with Kelsey at the controls, ...
The Pantagraph

World War II P-38 fighter discovered in Wales

NEW YORK - Sixty-five years after an American P-38 fighter plane ran out of gas and crash-landed on a beach in Wales, the long-forgotten World War II relic has emerged from the surf and sand where it ...