You've probably seen bullet-nose Studebakers with sharks' teeth ... building his '50 Champion Starlight coupe to resemble a Lockheed P-38 Lightning "as close as the Illinois Department of ...

On August 9, 1942, two Lightning ... their nose-mounted guns proving more accurate and hard-hitting than the wing-mounted weapons of most American fighters. However, while the P-38 was nimble ...

Developed under great secrecy, the aircraft would become famous during WWII as the legendary Lockheed P-38 Lightning ... came down very fast and with its nose at an attitude of 18°, and the ...

On August 9, 1942, two Lightning ... their nose-mounted guns proving more accurate and hard-hitting than the wing-mounted weapons of most American fighters. However, while the P-38 was nimble ...

P-38 Lightning Strikes in the Pacific The late, great Maj. Richard Ira "Dick" Bong , America’s “Ace of Aces” as mentioned above, scored all 40 of his aerial kills against Imperial Japanese ...

The jubilation the search team felt when it discovered "Ace of Aces" Richard Bong's downed P-38 Lightning fighter plane ... painted on the nose of the aircraft. The team found the aircraft in ...

50s in its nose, the Lightning was a threat in any theater. The first to escort bombers all the way to Berlin, P-38 Lightnings really hit their long stride in the Pacific. On over-ocean missions ...

But in the Pacific Theater and the campaign in North Africa, one plane is responsible for more air victories than everything else, the Lockheed P-38 Lightning, also known as "The Forked-Tail Devil." ...

It flew across the Pacific in World War II, and was scrapped and buried in Papua New Guinea afterward — but the Lockheed P-38 Lightning landed a home Thursday at the National Museum of World War ...