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In the brutal air battles of World War II, skill wasn’t always enough to keep a pilot alive. Some men survived against impossible odds - one of them was Jack Ilfrey, a P-38 Lightning ace who defied ...
The Tampa Bay Lightning will kick off their first-round ... with an NHL-leading 121 points and has won his second consecutive Art Ross Trophy because of it. This is also the third time he has ...
A pair of P-38 Lightning fighters are ambushed by German Focke Wolf 190s in this epic WWII dogfight cinematic! Russia formally declared national security threat to Britain Eddie Murphy says Sidney ...
The name was given to the fighter both for its speed and destructive precision, comparable to lightning, and as a tribute to the P-38 Lightning, a World War II fighter manufactured by the same company ...
The numerals following the name Lightning come from World War II's P-38 already having the Lightning moniker. It's not the first time the U.S. Armed Forces have reused a name for a vehicle.
as well as nose art inspired by Kunkle’s own P-38 Lightning. These visual elements are meant to bring the legacy of the 401st Fighter Squadron, part of the 370th Fighter Group under the 9th Air ...
later US Army Air Forces [USAAF]) Lockheed P-38 Lightning, while in the case of jolly ol' Britain, it was the Royal Air Force (RAF) de Havilland Mosquito. So then, between the Lightning and the ...
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 ...
Monti was the only US pilot to defect to the Nazis in WWII, later convicted of theft and desertion. He joined the Waffen-SS, worked in Nazi propaganda, and fled Germany before being arrested by the US ...
May 23—SUPERIOR — A team from Pacific Wrecks has discovered one of the most famous World War II aircraft, the P-38 Lightning fighter ... Marge's portrait to the nose of his P-38.