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 ...

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 ...

Kelly Johnson, designer at Lockheed—then a small company ... began his tally with a Lightning. Perhaps the P-38’s most legendary mission occurred on April 18, 1943, after U.S. signals ...

"It was a complicated airplane, but I loved it," said Kunkle, after seeing the museum's restored Lockheed P-38 Lightning. "Get me a day to get comfortable with it and I could fly it." Kunkle ...

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 ...

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 ...

an example of World War II P-38 Lightning fighter took the skies over Luke Air Force base alongside with an F-35 Lightning II performing a typical heritage flyby to celebrate Lockheed legacy ...

Lockheed P-38 Lightning ★ Though no Luftwaffe pilot was ever happy to see the P-38 (they called it the “forked-tail devil”), the twin-engine, twin-boom fighter made its reputation in the ...