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P-38 Lightning combat reality - what it was like to fly in the Pacific

P-38 Lightning pilot Christopher Bartlett faced Japanese fighters, severe damage, and a dangerous water landing in the South Pacific. His mission shows what flying the twin-boom fighter really meant ...
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When lightning strikes: How the Lockheed P-38 proved its versatility in combat

When lightning strikes, it rarely does so quietly, and few combat aircraft live up to that metaphor quite like theLockheed P-38 Lightning. Thanks to its twin-boom silhouette, concentrated nose ...
The National Interest

P-38 Lightning: The Best Fighter of World War II?

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 ...
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Lockheed P-38J-10-LO Lightning

Click to open image viewer. In the P-38 Lockheed engineer Clarence "Kelly" Johnson and his team of designers created one of the most successful twin-engine fighters ever flown by any nation. From 1942 ...
The National Interest

P-38 Lightning: The Backbone of America’s World War II Air Force

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 ...
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P-38 Lightning finds a home at newly built National Museum of World War II Aviation hangar in Colorado Springs

It flew across the Pacific in World War II, and was scrapped and buried in Papua New Guinea afterward — but the Lockheed P-38 Lightning landed a home Thursday at the National Museum of World War II ...