10 Things You Never Knew About The P-38 Lightning??

The Lockheed P-38 Lightning is a World War II American fighter aircraft. Developed to a United States Army Air Corps requirement, the P-38 had distinctive twin booms and a single, central nacelle containing the cockpit and armament. Named “fork-tailed devil”  by the Luftwaffe and “two planes, one pilot”  by the Japanese, the P-38 was used in a number of roles, including interception, dive bombing, level bombing, ground-attack, night fighting, photo reconnaissance, radar and visual pathfinding for bombers, and evacuation missions, and extensively as a long-range escort fighter when equipped with drop tanks under its wings.

1) The P-38 was the first fighter to fly faster than 400 mph.

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2) And, the P-38 and Wildcat were the only American fighter aircraft in production throughout the entire American involvement in WWII.

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3) The P-38 was nicknamed the ‘fork-tailed devil’ by the German Luftwaffe and ‘two planes, one pilot’ by Japanese fighter pilots.

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