Less than five miles north of Brightwood - deep in the protected Bull Run watershed - lies the place where a young World War ...

P-38 Lightning: It Might Be 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 ...

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 ...

Notes "The definitive story of Lockheed's P-38 Fighter"- cover Includes appendices and glossary. NASM copy 39088008730749 has bookplate: Gift of Melvin Buchner. Date 1991 Call number UG1242.F5 B66 ...

NEW YORK - Sixty-five years after an American P-38 fighter plane ran out of gas and crash-landed on a beach in Wales, the long-forgotten World War II relic has emerged from the surf and sand where ...

The first P-38s became operational with the 1st Fighter Group in April 1941, and the initial combat deployments were made in Alaska, the Southwest Pacific and North Africa during the latter part of ...

The P-38 Lightning twin-engine fighter plane, which thundered over Europe, North Africa and the Pacific during World War II, traveled quietly this month on a 21-foot-wide tractor-trailer from a ...

And while the P-38 is not remembered as fondly as other, more iconic aircraft of the conflict, like the Mustang, the Spitfire, the Me 109, or the Zero, the P-38 deserves credit for a significant ...