TheLockheed P-38 Lightning was one of the most successful fighters of World War II and saw service in every major theater of ...

Original plans for the air base were to train B-25 ... Along with the Fourth Air Force came the Lockheed P-38 Lightning, appropriately named by the Germans as “the forked-tailed devil ...

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 ...

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 ...

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." ...

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 ...