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A flight of Messerschmidt Bf-109's come in on a group of Lockheed P-38 Lightning fighters in this classic World War II battle over Europe!
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 ...
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 ...
A P-38 Lightning fighter, with markings replicating the original Marge aircraft, sits on display at the Richard Bong WWII Heritage Center in Superior, Wis. (Richard I. Bong WWII Heritage Center) ...