P-38 Lightning Strikes in the Pacific The late, great Maj. Richard Ira "Dick" Bong , America’s “Ace of Aces” as mentioned ...

Advertisement Article continues below this ad On June 5, 1943, Hargesheimer, a P-38 Lightning pilot with the ... "most of it $5 and $10 gifts," and returned with 17-year-old son Richard in 1963 ...

During World War II, Olympia served as a training base for the P-38 Lightning, a popular fighter ... by using the easy options below. Gifts processed in this system are tax deductible.

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 ...

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 ...

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." ...

It also shares some similarities with another famous and strange looking vehicle, the Lockheed P-38 Lightning. While it's important to note that one of them is fictional, both served their star ...

The numerals following the name Lightning come from World War II's P-38 already having the Lightning moniker. It's not the first time the U.S. Armed Forces have reused a name for a vehicle.

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 ...

Visit one of the few P-38's in the world. Visit one of the few P-38's in the world, and learn of the restoration project by the Richard I. Bong Veterans Historical Center in Superior, WI.