Here’s What You Need To Remember: However, the Lightning’s shortcomings vis-a-vis German fighters meant it never equaled the reputation of single-engine Mustang and Thunderbolt fighters. This is ...

Key point: The P-38 was a forerunner of modern multi-role fighters. In 1937, the U.S. Army Air Corp called for proposals for an interceptor capable of flying 360 miles-per-hour and climbing rapidly to ...

On this day in aviation history, January 27, 1939, the Lockheed XP-38 made its first flight. Developed under great secrecy, the aircraft would become famous during WWII as the legendary Lockheed P-38 ...

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 ...

Visit one of the few P-38's in the world. Visit one of the few P-38's in the world, and learn of the restoration project by the Richard I. Bong Veterans Historical Center in Superior, WI. Visit one of ...

This is the story of the only time in history that an American made P-38 Lightning attacked American B-17 Bombers - when ...

James Kunkle Sr. was reunited with an old war "buddy" Saturday during a visit to the National Museum of World War II Aviation in Colorado Springs. Although they hadn't seen each other in at least 72 ...

2nd Lt. Allan W. Knepper took off from Tunisia in his P-38 "Lightning" aircraft as "one of many fighter waves" set to attack enemy Axis forces in Sicily, Italy on July 10, 1943. During the attack, air ...