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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

What does it take to survive being shot down nine times? This video tells the incredible story of a P-38 fighter ace who defied death, detailing his uncanny survival skills and resilience in the skies ...

Richard Bong was the United States’ top ace pilot during the Second World War, scoring 40 aerial victories during his time in the war. Many of those kills happened behind the stick of a P-38 fighter ...

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 ...

One of them embraced his nickname "Screwy Louie" and had a version of it painted on his P-38 fighter plane. Nine of them came from the Milwaukee metro area. And the best of them was the best ever, a ...