Richard Bong - the deadliest American WWII pilot - amassed 40 air-to-air kills with the P-38 Lightning. Bong transitioned ...

It is roughly comparable in role and age to the American Lockheed P-3 Orion ... saying Il-38 aircraft of the Pacific Fleet were conducting combat training over the Sea of Japan.

In the Pacific Theater, P-38s downed over 1,800 Japanese aircraft, and more than 100 P-38 pilots became “aces.” Before the ...