A P-38J-10-LO Lightning fighter of the United States Army Air Forces (42-68008) flying over California in 1944 (Photo: U.S.

The Walther P-38 arguably supplants even the infamous Luger P.08 as the definitive German pistol of the 20th century. Its development began in the early 1930s, when a cash-strapped German army looked ...

The Lockheed P-38 Lightning is an aircraft that opted to pen its name in capital letters in the annals of war flight. Modeled as a high-altitude fighter, this aircraft not only displayed phenomenal ...

The wreck of a P-38 fighter flown by America’s all-time top flying ace was found last week, 80 years after it crashed in the jungles of Papua New Guinea. Capt. Richard I. Bong, who was credited for ...

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 ...

Key point: The P-38 was a forerunner of modern multi-role fighters. In 1937, the U.S. Army Air Corp called for proposals for an interceptor capable of flying 360 miles-per-hour and climbing rapidly to ...

Visit one of the few P-38's in the world. Visit one of the few P-38's in the world, and learn of the restoration project by the Richard I. Bong Veterans Historical Center in Superior, WI. Visit one of ...

On July 8, 1944, a P-38 piloted by 23-year-old 2nd Lt. Henry Donald Mitchell of Harmon crash-landed in a deeply wooded area near Waldegg, Austria after a flight sweep to Vienna with the 48th Fighter ...

Searchers have located the wreck of a P-38 Lightning fighter aircraft buried deep within a glacier in Greenland, more than 70 years after a lost squadron of U.S. warplanes crash-landed on the ice ...