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P-38 Lightning 42-68008.
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Adjusting the nose guns of a P-38.
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P-38 “Scrapiron IV”. Assigned to 393FS, 367FG, 9AF. Personal aircraft of Capt Laurence E. Blumer. Transferred to 326 Ferrying Squadron, 1 Transport Group, 9AF USAAF.
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P-38 Lightning white 16.
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P-38’s being transported on a carrier.
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P-38 with drop tanks.
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P-38 Lightning cutaway.
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P-38H-5-LO 42-66905 “Japanese Sandman II”, pilot Lt. Dolphus Ransome Dawson II.
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P-38 on a strafing run.
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P-38, Aleutians.
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P-38’s under construction at the factory outdoors.
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The 5,000th Lightning built, a P-38J-20-LO, 44-23296, was painted bright vermilion red, and had the name YIPPEE painted on the underside of the wings in big white letters as well as the signatures of hundreds of factory workers. This and other aircraft we
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F-5C-1-LO (P-38J) Lightning 42-67128 "Dot+Dash" of the 7th Photographic Reconnaissance Group at Mount Farm, Oxfordshire England.
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P-38 Lightning.
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P-38 with a slightly different external fuel tank. Some minor testing was conducted as a means to transport a person in these pods.
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The crash of the XP-38. The conclusion of the record flight across the country. The loss of the aircraft did set the program back, but the performance of this new design showed much promise.
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Scoreboard indicates the number of fighter and bombing missions flown by this P-38.
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‘Drop tank car’ with P-38 in background.
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F-5 (P-38) "Maxine" on takeoff, part of the 7th PRG, RAF Benson, Mt Farm, England.
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P-38J Lightning ‘Moonlight Cocktail’ of the 392nd Fighter Squadron at Juvincourt Airfield, Aisne, France, January 1945.
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The P-38 did not have much space in the cockpit for a passenger. This one, a P-38F, named “Piggyback” was slightly modified to allow an engineer/passenger to ride along with the pilot, as seen in the photo.
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P-38 Lightning.
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The P-38 was tested as a torpedo bomber. The lifting capability of the P-38 was impressive, and the tests conducted were very successful. However, the nature of war in the Pacific really did not allow an opportunity to be used in actual combat situation
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Another view of P-38 AF221.
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Maintenance on a P-38.
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P-38 testing drop tanks and bazooka rocket tubes.
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P-38 testing drop tanks and bazooka rocket tubes.
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Pilots run to their P-38s, Aleutians.
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P-38 'Peg O' My Heart'.
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P-38 wartime postcard “Keep ‘em Flying!”
