P-38 Lightning Photographs | World War II Database

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F-5B-1-LO Lightning aircraft (photo reconnaissance variant of the P-38J) painted PRU blue in flight, 1943; photo 2 of 2; note accompanying P-38J aircraft in usual olive drab	Line of P-38 Lightning escort fighters at Jackson Field, Port Moresby, New Guinea, 1942-1943

P-38 Lightning aircraft in flight, date unknown	P-38 Lightning aircraft loaded aboard an escort carrier for ferrying to Europe, New York, United States, date unknown

P-38 Lightning fighters escorting US 43rd Bombardment Group aircraft over New Guinea, 1942-1943, photo 1 of 2	P-38 Lightning fighters escorting US 43rd Bombardment Group aircraft over New Guinea, 1942-1943, photo 2 of 2

P-38E Lightning aircraft at rest, May 1942-Feb 1943; note Lockheed Electra/Ventura-based aircraft at right	P-38E Lightning aircraft with experimental wings, southern California, United States, 1943

P-38F Lightning aircraft of US 27th Fighter Squadron, North Africa, 1943	P-38G Lightning aircraft at rest, 1942-1943

P-38H Lightning aircraft of 55th Fighter Group, US 38th Fighter Squadron over RAF Nuthamstead Airfield, England, United Kingdom, en route to attack Southern France, Feb-Apr 1944	P-38H-5 Lightning night fighter with one engine feathered; many said this plane would be un-flyable with one engine lost; 1943

P-38H-5-LO Lightning aircraft in flight, Jul 1943	WASP pilot Catherine Vail Bridge standing in front of a P-38 Lightning, date and location unknown.

Lt Herb Hasenfus of the 54th Fighter Squadron standing in the cockpit of his P-38 Lightning during engine run-up at Adak, Alaska, Mar 1943. Note the artwork on the engine cowls.	P-38G Lightning “Miss Virginia” after a belly landing at Fighter Strip #2, Kukum, Guadalcanal, Apr 1943. Days earlier, this plane, flown by Rex Barber, shot down the G4M bomber carrying Isoroku Yamamoto over Bougainville

Three P-38 Lightnings overfly the crew of a PBY-5A Catalina practicing the recovery of downed airmen, Solomons, 1942-43	P-38H Lightning aircraft at rest, Jul 1943

Escort Carrier USS Barnes transporting P-38 Lightning and P-47 Thunderbolt fighter planes across the Pacific, July 1 1943	USAAF P-38J Lightning aircraft in flight, late 1943