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The Story of the P-38 Lightning: America’s Twin-Boomed WWII Powerhouse

The Lockheed P-38 Lightning is an aircraft that opted to pen its name in capital letters in the annals of war flight. Modeled as a high-altitude fighter, this aircraft not only displayed phenomenal ...
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P-38 Lightning: The Twin-Boom Ace Maker That Redefined Air Warfare

The Lockheed P-38 Lightning, an icon of American innovation and air dominance in World War II, is still one of the most recognizable fighters of all time. First flying in 1939, the P-38 Lightning was ...
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Lockheed P-38J-10-LO Lightning

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. In the P-38 Lockheed engineer ...
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The Lockheed P-38 Lightning Looked Bizarre But Its WWII Fighter Plane Record Was Astounding

In the time between World War I and World War II, fighter planes underwent rapid changes. During the first World War, the Sopwith F.1 Camel was known as one of the best combat planes around. It had a ...
Los Angeles Times

From the Archives: Lockheed expands P-38 production

At the Lockheed Aircraft Corp. plant in Burbank, three new mechanized conveyor lines help double the production of the P-38 Lightning, an advanced high-altitude fighter plane. The new assembly lines ...
Moviefone

Aviation at War: P-38 Lightning in World War II

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 - ground ...
The National Interest

P-38 Lightning

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... Key point ...
Jalopnik

The Millennium Falcon Is The Lockheed P-38 Lightning Of Star Wars

Han Solo's Millennium Falcon from the Star Wars movies is about as recognizable as Darth Vader or a lightsaber. It's a smuggling ship, hot rod and plot device all rolled into one. After all, it's the ...
New Haven Register

World War II veteran Orville Miller builds replica Lockheed P-38 Lightning fighter aircraft, recounts memories

VERNON -- World War II veteran Orville Miller came home from Okinawa in 1946 with a unique memento of his service in the Pacific Theater. And it wasn't a keepsake that was easily brought back to the ...
The Gazette

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 ...
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Destructor Unit, Lockheed P-38J-10-LO Lightning

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. From 1942 to 1945, the thunder of ...