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P-38F Lightning of the 339th Fighter Squadron, being recovered after crashing.
[Source: Jack Cook Collection via the Warbird Information eXchange]
P-38G Lightning of the 1st Fighter Group after crash landing, Tunisia.
[Source: Jack Cook Collection via the Warbird Information eXchange]
Rough field operations caused difficult working conditions for 9th Air Force maintenance personnel. Here a crew prepares to use an external heater to warm a
P-38’s frozen engine so it can be started while an armorer works on the guns in the nose while atop a makeshift stand.
[Source: USAF Photo via Robbie Stuart Collection]
P-38 Lightning "Elsie" after suffering a nose gear collapse.
[Source: USAF Photo]
Close up of the radar unit on a P-38M Night Lightning.
[Source: USAF Photo]
P-38L Lightning/Rough And Dirty Jr. of the 18th FG, Phillipine Islands, 1945.
[Source: Jack Cook Collection via the Warbird Information eXchange]
P-38H Lightning #181 of the 433rd FS, lost on October 17, 1943.
[Source: Jack Cook Collection via the Warbird Information eXchange]
P-38 Lightnings at Hickam Field having shipping material removed.
Awaiting installation of engines and wings.
[Source: USAF Photo]
P-38L-1-LO Lightnings at Hickam Field awaiting installation of engines and wings.
(44-23993 in the foreground).
[Source: USAF Photo]
P-38 Lightning with a casevac pod under each wing.
[Source: Unknown]
Crashed F5C Lightning of the 8th PRS, Tadji airstrip, New Guinea, circa 1943.
[Source: Mark Allen Collection via the Warbird Information eXchange]
A wet Lightning.
[Source: Mark Allen Collection via the Warbird Information eXchange]
A P-38 Lightning with a collapsed nose wheel.
[Source: Mark Allen Collection via the Warbird Information eXchange]
P-38J Lightning of the 459th FS getting serviced, somewhere in the CBI theater.
[Source: Jack Cook Collection via the Warbird Information eXchange]
P-38G Lightning/43-2264/#147 /Miss Virginia of the 339th FS/347th FG assigned to Captain Bob Petit and flown by Lt Rex Barber when he shot down Adm Yamamoto's Betty bomber. Crashed with battle damage on Fighter 2 Airstrip, Guadalcanal.
[Source: Jack Cook Collection via the Warbird Information eXchange]
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