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 ...

Bong was transferred to his first operational assignment at Hamilton Field in California to train on the Lockheed P-38 Lightning. At its time, the P-38 was the first American military plane to ...

But in the Pacific Theater and the campaign in North Africa, one plane is responsible for more air victories than everything else, the Lockheed P-38 Lightning, also known as "The Forked-Tail Devil." ...

Lockheed's P-38 introduced the concept of the interceptor a fighter aircraft of great speed and high rate of climb. As WWII progressed the lighting was developed in to a wide range of roles ...

In that crash, a military Lockheed P-38 Lightning having engine trouble slammed into an Eastern Air Lines Douglas DC-4, according to the Arlington Historical Society. Fifty-five people died in the ...

The Lockheed P-38 Lightning was one of the most influential fighter-bomber aircraft in the Second World War. The Germans actually nicknamed this aircraft the “Fork-Tailed Devil” for its ...

The Lockheed P-38 Lightning fighter plane was discovered after Bong Veterans Historical Center in Superior partnered with the nonprofit group Pacific Wrecks and local villagers to search the ...