sucellis Aug 14, 2011 10:11pm

i got to see this plane in kentucky as it was being restored.

Tomcat52 Jun 29, 2011 6:56pm

Is this the refurbish that they found in the ice?

talonridder May 22, 2011 5:37am

it is a beautiful planes its a shame u dont hear much about its action

Tigerkaetzchen Mar 30, 2009 4:58pm

Love and favor it i love the P38 sadly one of my most beloved Poets diet in one of this birds. ♥BUSSI♥ Melanie

Tigerkaetzchen Mar 30, 2009 4:57pm

Antoine de Saint Exupéry

Noted aviation pioneer and writer Antoine de Saint Exupéry vanished in a F-5B-1-LO, 42-68223, c/n 2734, of II/33 Squadron, out of Borgo-Porreta, Bastia, Corsica, a reconnaissance variant of the P-38, while on a flight over the Mediterranean, from Corsica to mainland France, on 31 July 1944. His health, both physical and mental (he was said to be intermittently subject to depression), had been deteriorating and there had been talk of taking him off flight status. There have been suggestions (although no proof to date) that this was a suicide rather than an aircraft failure or combat loss. In 2000, a French scuba diver found the wreckage of a Lightning in the Mediterranean off the coast of Marseille, and it was confirmed in April 2004 as Saint Exupéry 's F-5B. No evidence of air combat was found. In March 2008 a former Luftwaffe pilot, Horst Rippert from Jagdgruppe 200, claimed his shooting down.