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 ...

The Lockheed P-38 Lightning featured a distinctive twin-boom design with a central nacelle that housed the aircraft's cockpit and armament.

The P-38, a World War II-era American piston-engine fighter aircraft developed by Lockheed for the U.S. Army Air Corps, was the preferred aircraft of American’s top aces. It could do anything!

At the Lockheed Aircraft Corp. plant in Burbank, three new mechanized conveyor lines help double the production of the P-38 Lightning, an advanced high-altitude fighter plane.

May 23—SUPERIOR — A team from Pacific Wrecks has discovered one of the most famous World War II aircraft, the P-38 Lightning fighter plane assigned to America's top Ace, Richard I. Bong. "We ...

The Bong Veterans Historical Center and Pacific Wrecks announce that Richard Bong's P-38 fighter plane, "Marge", has been discovered in Papua New Guinea. The aircraft was lost in 1944.

Frank Royal's Air Force took off at 1:38 p.m. A vintage aircraft clawed through the air followed by two chase planes, one carrying the 101-year-old pilot. The last plane in ...

U.S. WWII Ace Richard Bong’s P-38 Believed Found The fighter aircraft, which crashed in 1944, has been identified and verified in Papua New Guinea.

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 ...