[PotatoHeadMick]

Interesting picture in the article.

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

[Viking2002]

The P-38 was one of the most romantic, sleek-looking aircraft of WWII.

Here, allow me........:

[IllumiNaughtyByNature]

That was a cool pic.

[HoosierHawk]

ping

[mkjessup]

A great article, thanks for posting!

And for the less informed who might stumble across this thread, Kelly Johnson went on to design the famous U-2 reconnisance plane, which provided the U.S. with the capability to overfly the Soviet Union in the late 1950’s with near impunity (although the late Francis Gary Powers might take issue with that claim), and I believe it was a U-2 that provided the U.S. with proof of Soviet missiles in Cuba in ‘62.

And of course it was a team of P-38 fighters that took out Japanese Admiral Yamamoto, just our way of saying “sayonara Isoroku, and thanks.”

I hope this P-38 makes it back to the U.S. and to a full restoration.

[ZULU]

AWESOME!!!!

Hope they can salvage it and preserve it.

I don’t think there are too many of those great old warbirds left.

[P.O.E.]

Reminds me of one of my favorite Twilight Zones.

[SW6906]

Ping!

[bajabaja]

Just . . . WOW.

[Drawsing]

Was this not the plane depicted in the movie and book “The Flight of the Phoenix?” In this movie, travelers crashed their P-38 in the desert and finally made it out by building a new plane out of one of the “booms”.