Step into the cockpit of the legendary P-38 Lightning and experience the intensity of WWII aerial combat over the South Pacific in 1943. Follow an actual mission, face split-second decisions, and ...

and more than 100 P-38 pilots became “aces.” 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 ...

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 ...

Following World War II, US junkyards and surplus stores were ... because 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.