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 ...

The jubilation the search team felt when it discovered "Ace of Aces" Richard Bong's downed P-38 Lightning fighter plane in a South Pacific jungle reverberated more than 8,000 miles away in northern ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A fighter plane that vanished 80 years ago during a WWII-era raid on Italy has been found in the country’s sea, according to a ...

The Bong Veterans Historical Center and Pacific Wrecks have announced that the Richard Bong’s P-38 fighter plane, “Marge,” has been discovered in Papua New Guinea. The discovery was the result of a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. May 23—SUPERIOR — A team from Pacific Wrecks has discovered one of the most famous World War II aircraft, the P-38 Lightning ...

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 ...

This is the story of P-38 Lightning Fighter "Glacier Girl" that was frozen in ice for more than 50 years. This was made using the World War II flight simulator IL-2 Sturmovik Great Battles series.

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 ...

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

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 wreckage of a World War 2 fighter plane flown by Wisconsin ace pilot Richard I. Bong has been discovered in the jungle of Papua New Guinea, explorers have claimed. The plane was flown by Bong when ...

Captain Richard J. Bong nicknamed his Lighting P-38 fighter plane Marg after his girlfriend, Marge Vattendahl. The World War II flying ace is shown with his plan at a New Guinea Air Base on March 31, ...