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

Discover the origins and the major variants that made the Lightning a legend.
World of Warbirds on MSN

The P-38 Lightning’s origin story, Ben Kelsey, Kelly Johnson, and the fighter that almost never happened

Before the P-38 Lightning became famous, it began as a bureaucratic workaround, a radical Lockheed design, and one risky prototype that ended in a wrecked airplane. This episode follows the overlooked ...
The National Interest

The F-35 Fighter Has a New Enemy: The Weather

The Lockheed Martin F-35 was famously given the name “Lightning II” to honor the Lockheed P-38 Lightning fighter that saw service during the Second World War. However, despite officially being an “all ...
Green Bay Press-Gazette

Search team finds plane once flown by a Wisconsin WWII hero, 'Ace of Aces' Richard Bong

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 ...
AOL

Thunderbolt and Lightning: U.S. WW2 Fighters Pair Heavy Firepower with 660+ kmh Speed

There were few World War 2 fighter aircraft that could match the speed and firepower of America’s top fighters. The Republic P-47 Thunderbolt and Lockheed P-38 Lightning were some of the best fighters ...