Before the arrival of the vaunted North American P-51D Mustang, towards the end of World War II ... night fighter, bomber, bomber-pathfinder, and aerial reconnaissance. And while the P-38 is not ...

Richard Bong - the deadliest American WWII pilot - amassed ... to train on the Lockheed P-38 Lightning. At its time, the P-38 ...

Following World War II, US junkyards and surplus stores were ... it was an extra fuel tank attached to the bottom of a P-38 fighter plane. So it was already proven to to be aerodynamic.

towards the end of World War II, U.S. forces relied on other, less superlative aircraft for long-range bomber escorts—primarily the Lockheed P-38 Lightning. Instantly recognizable for its twin ...