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When lightning strikes: How the Lockheed P-38 proved its versatility in combat

When lightning strikes, it rarely does so quietly, and few combat aircraft live up to that metaphor quite like theLockheed P-38 Lightning. Thanks to its twin-boom silhouette, concentrated nose ...
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How Many P-38 Lightnings Are Left?

TheLockheed P-38 Lightning was one of the most successful fighters of World War II and saw service in every major theater of the conflict. TheP-38, easily recognizable for its distinctive twin-boom ...
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P-38 Lightning: The Backbone of America’s World War II Air Force

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 the ...
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Aerial Dominance: WW2 Era U.S. Aircraft with the Highest Confirmed Kills

Allied ingenuity produced a number of great fighter aircraft that would prove instrumental in their victory in World War 2 The Republic P-47 Thunderbolt and Lockheed P-38 Lightning were each capable ...
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Lockheed "Lightning" P-38 Pursuit ∙ U.S. Army Air Force

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The Lockheed P-38 Lightning : "it goes like hell" -- Kelsey / by Warren M. Bodie

NASM copy 39088008730749 has bookplate: Gift of Melvin Buchner. https://siris-libraries.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=liball&source=~!silibraries&uri=full=3100001 ...