P-38 Lightning 42-68008. Adjusting the nose guns of a P-38. P-38 “Scrapiron IV”. Assigned to 393FS, 367FG, 9AF. Personal aircraft of Capt Laurence E. Blumer. Transferred to 326 Ferrying Squadron, 1 Transport Group, 9AF USAAF. P-38 Lightning white 16. P-38’s being transported on a carrier. P-38 with drop tanks. P-38 Lightning cutaway. P-38H-5-LO 42-66905 “Japanese Sandman II”, pilot Lt. Dolphus Ransome Dawson II. P-38 on a strafing run. P-38, Aleutians. P-38’s under construction at the factory outdoors. The 5,000th Lightning built, a P-38J-20-LO, 44-23296, was painted bright vermilion red, and had the name YIPPEE painted on the underside of the wings in big white letters as well as the signatures of hundreds of factory workers. This and other aircraft were used by a handful of Lockheed test pilots including Milo Burcham, Jimmie Mattern and Tony LeVier in remarkable flight demonstrations, performing such stunts as slow rolls at treetop level with one prop feathered, to dispel the myth th...