On July 15, 1942, six P-38 Lightning fighter aircraft and two B-17 Flying Fortress bombers encountered a blizzard while supporting the Allied war effort in the British Isles. The aircraft were forced ...

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 ...

The legendary P-38 aircraft found its way to Santa Rosa's blue skies Saturday for the second time since World War II. "We didn't realize how many families had members who flew the P-38," said Dave ...

Summary and Key Points: The Lockheed P-38 Lightning, the first aircraft produced by Skunk Works under Clarence “Kelly” Johnson, played a pivotal role in World War II. Some experts declare it the best ...

The P-38 Lightning began as a troubled experiment but evolved into one of the Pacific’s most formidable warbirds. From ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. In the P-38 Lockheed engineer ...

A vintage P-38 Lightning aircraft, named "Echo," has been discovered 340 feet under glacial ice in Greenland by Arctic Hot Point Solutions. "Echo" is part of the WWII "Lost Squadron," a group of ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Second Lt. Robert R. Keown was piloting his P-38 aircraft to an airfield after a mission in 1944 when it crashed into a mountain in Papua New Guinea. World War II ended without ...

The Bong Veterans Historical Center and Pacific Wrecks have announced that the Richard Bong’s P-38 fighter plane, “Marge,” has been discovered in Papua New Guinea. The discovery was the result of a ...