• Aircraft:

  Lockheed P-38J Lightning

• Reg: 42-67762 photos
• Serial #:

  422-2273

• Airline: United States - US Army Air Force (USAAF)
• Photo Date: Jan 18, 2015
• Uploaded: Nov 27, 2015
• Other Location - NASM Steven F Udvar-Hazy Center, USA - Virginia

In the P-38 Lockheed engineer Clarence "Kelly" Johnson and his team of designers created one of the most successful twin-engine fighters ever flown by any nation. From 1942 to 1945, U. S. Army Air Forces pilots flew P-38s over Europe, the Mediterranean, and the Pacific, and from the frozen Aleutian Islands to the sun-baked deserts of North Africa. Lightning pilots in the Pacific theater downed more Japanese aircraft than pilots flying any other Army Air Forces warplane. Maj. Richard I. Bong, America's leading fighter ace, flew this P-38J-10-LO on April 16, 1945, at Wright Field, Ohio, to evaluate an experimental method of interconnecting the movement of the throttle and propeller control levers. However, his right engine exploded in flight before he could conduct the experiment.

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