Summary and Key Points: The Lockheed P-38 Lightning, the first aircraft produced by Skunk Works under Clarence "Kelly" Johnson, played a pivotal role in World War II. Some experts declare it the ...

The P-38 can trace its roots to a 1937 request by the United States Army Air Corps for a high-altitude fighter-interceptor. Here is the unusual twin-boom configuration Lockheed submitted, with two ...