Explore the combat capabilities and legendary missions of the P-38 Lightning and Mosquito. From speed, armament, and range to pilot comfort and survivability, this guide highlights how these aircraft ...

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Luke Diaz is a freelance military writer with experience on active duty with the US Navy as well as defense and industrial engineering. He is a former Naval Flight Officer who performed tactical air ...

Aaron has a burning passion for flying and traveling around the world. He has flown around the world numerous times while making a point of visiting aviation museums around the world. He hails from ...

We have only 15 seconds of a lovely Lightning, owned by the Fagen Fighters World War II Museum in Granite Falls, Minnesota, flying over a winter landscape. But during World War II, Japanese or German ...

In August 1943, B-17 bombers flying over Italy faced an unexpected threat. Axis forces captured and repurposed a P-38 Lightning to attack American formations. The bomber crews, unsuspecting, suffered ...

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 ...

Summary and Key Points: The Lockheed P-38 Lightning, the first aircraft produced by Skunk Works under Clarence “Kelly” Johnson, played a pivotal role in World War II. Some experts declare it the best ...

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 ...