Lockheed built a total of 10,037 P-38's between 1941 and 1945. The plane, designated “Lightning” by the US Army Air Corps was used with great success in the European, Pacific and China-Burma-India theaters of operations. The Lightning called "Marge" was flown by the ace of aces Richard Bong who earned 40 victories. Second with 38 was Thomas McGuire in his aircraft called "Pudgy", America’s highest scoring P-38 aces to date.
On July 15, 1942 a flight of six P-38s & two B-17 bombers made an emergency landing on a
remote ice field in Greenland. Fifty-five years later, hard work and a six-figure budget recovered
one P-38 from under 268 feet of ice;
SN #41-7630 now known as “Glacier Girl”.
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