Lightning Strikes 7 Times by Stan Stokes. PER18

Lightning Strikes 7 Times by Stan Stokes. PER18STK0039. Lightning Strikes 7 Times by Stan Stokes. The Lockheed P 38 Lightning, called the Fork Tailed Devil by Luftwaffe pilots in Africa, was one of the largest fighter aircraft to see service during WW II. Flight testing of the YP 38 prototype was completed in 1941. The first P 38s put into service were dedicated to the defense of the West Coast following the attack on Pearl Harbor. In the spring of 1942 plans were laid to deploy P 38s in Europe.

Countermeasures were soon put into action as powerful searchlights picked out the Zeppelins for the anti-aircraft batteries and RFC pilots to pour their unrelenting fire into the raiders

and the North Vietnamese knew that this would also hinder American air support

Aces All - Tribute to the Pilots and Crews of 23 Sqn

Neither of these aircraft were produced in large numbers

Advancing some 30 miles

McLaren at Monaco

Tribute to Capitano Ugo Drago by Ivan Berryman

4s however fell into the hands of the Soviet Red Army in 1918 and were pressed into service on the Black Sea

The ubiquitous Huey saw action in an enormous variety of roles

Operating under difficult and dry conditions from Al Dafra AB

Panda Pair by Spencer Hodge

HMS Hood readies to fire off a what proved to be the final salvo against the Bismarck before a shell from the German battleship penetrated the magazine of HMS Hood