Working on the Homefront, 1942-45" exhibit features about 50 photographs of workers at Grumman, Sperry, Republic and Liberty.

Physicists confirm DT fusion insights from a 1938 experiment. The findings connect past theory with current fusion efforts. A team at Los Alamos National Laboratory has successfully recreated a signif ...

From its twin booms to its turbochargers, every part of the P-38 Lightning was ahead of its time. This story dives into the engineering breakthroughs that made it one of the most versatile and feared ...

Kory Gilderman, a trustee on the Poplar Village Board of Trustees, will fly 36 hours to Papua New Guinea to sign a Sister City agreement between the municipalities. He plans to bring an extra suitcase ...

P-38 Lightning in Flight We have only 15 seconds of a lovely Lightning, owned by the Fagen Fighters World War II Museum in Granite Falls, Minnesota, flying over a winter landscape. But during ...

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 ...

Richard Bong - the deadliest American WWII pilot - amassed 40 air-to-air kills with the P-38 Lightning. Bong transitioned ...

May 23—SUPERIOR — A team from Pacific Wrecks has discovered one of the most famous World War II aircraft, the P-38 Lightning fighter plane assigned to America's top Ace, Richard I. Bong. "We ...

The Bong Veterans Historical Center and Pacific Wrecks announce that Richard Bong's P-38 fighter plane, "Marge", has been discovered in Papua New Guinea. The aircraft was lost in 1944.

The Lockheed P-38 Lightning is an aircraft that decisively carved its name into the annals of military aviation history. Originally conceptualized as a high-altitude interceptor, this aircraft not ...