IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. From 1942 to 1945, the thunder of ...

Warbird Restorations in Albion Park, Australia, is restoring two historic Lockheed P-38 Lightnings - "Dumbo" and Major Peyton S. Mathis Jr.'s aircraft - for museum display. Discover the precision ...

In the time between World War I and World War II, fighter planes underwent rapid changes. During the first World War, the Sopwith F.1 Camel was known as one of the best combat planes around. It had a ...

VERNON -- World War II veteran Orville Miller came home from Okinawa in 1946 with a unique memento of his service in the Pacific Theater. And it wasn't a keepsake that was easily brought back to the ...

In the Pacific Theater, P-38s downed over 1,800 Japanese aircraft, and more than 100 P-38 pilots became “aces.” Summary and Key Points: The Lockheed P-38 Lightning, the first aircraft produced by ...

The Richard I. Bong Center is organizing an expedition for the to search for the famous Lockheed P-38 Lightning, “Marge”. The aircraft crashed in Papa New Guinea 80 years ago. The historical center is ...

California bore witness to some of the most traumatic stateside events that happened after Pearl Harbor was bombed on Dec. 7, 1941. The state was racked from north to south with near-panic conditions ...

Kelly Johnson and his team at Lockheed begin development on this fascinating Warbird: Lockheed's P-38 Lightning!

Vintage trucks aren't as desirable and valuable as classic cars, but a few of them do fetch big bucks at auctions. Fuel trucks aren't among them. Not only they're bigger than the average pickups and, ...

You voted for Black Mamba, but the US Air Force decided differently and so Lockheed Martin's F-35 Joint Strike Fighter has now been christened. No poisonous snakes, man-eating birds or scythe wielders ...

Air Corps test pilot and P-38 project officer, Lt. Benjamin S. Kelsey, first flew the aircraft on January 27. Losing this prototype in a crash at Mitchel Field, New York, with Kelsey at the controls, ...