Successive orders developed the P-38 family into the P-38E, P-38F, and P-38G variants. Before the second USAAF order, an Anglo-French order for 667 aircraft was placed, which were variously ...

In 1943, the U.S. targeted the exceptionally skilled Japanese commander and killed him in what constituted a precision attack for the time — with the P-38G Lightnings that intercepted him midair ...