Fighter ace Capt. Robert L. Faurot poses in front of his P-38F Lightning aircraft assigned to the 39th Fighter Squadron, 35th Fighter Group. The P-38 wears the number 16, the pilot’s name (“Capt R L Faurot”)...
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A Lockheed P-38 Lightning fighter is unloaded by crane from a ship at Queens Dock, Liverpool in January 1943. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)
A P-38 Lightning leads an aircraft formation of an F-22 Raptor and F-86 Sabres during the 2015 Heritage Flight Training and Certification Course at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona. (U.S. Air Force Photograph by S/Sgt...
The P-38 Lightning “Mama’s Boy” is photographed at King’s Cliffe, England in 1944. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)
Test installation of a triple rocket launcher mounted on a P-38 Lightning. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)
A Lockheed P-38F Lightning of the 50th Fighter Squadron, 14th Fighter Group in the snow at Camp Tripoli Airfield, Iceland, November 1942. (U.S. Library of Congress Photograph.)
Lockheed P-38 Lightning aircraft receive maintenance and final inspections on the assembly line outside the aircraft plant, circa 1942. (U.S. National Archives)
A P-40 Warhawk, P-51 Mustang, P-47 Thunderbolt and P-38 Lightning fly in formation during the 2015 Heritage Flight Training and Certification Course at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base Ariz., March 1, 2015. Established in 1997, the...
Original Caption: A F-86 Sabre, P-38 Lightning, F-4 Phantom and A-10 Thunderbolt (clockwise) break over Nellis Air Force Base, Nev., for the Air Combat Command heritage flight during the 2009 Aviation Nation open house Nov. 13...
A pilot from 333rd Ftr Sq, 318th FG flies his damaged P-38 Lightning “Ripper” back to Saipan after an attack on Iwo Jima. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)