P-38

View from B-25s of the 22nd Bombardment Squadron in flight over SW China, Indochina, or Burma during WWII--Happy for the rare escort by P-38s and P-51s.

Aircraft flown by Richard D. Harris during WWII--P-38.

A Republic P-47B Thunderbolt, tail #227738, on pavement at an airbase in in Burma during WWII. P-38 #423800 is behind.

A P-38 on an airstrip in Burma. Aircraft in Burma near the 797th Engineer Forestry Company. During WWII.

Aircraft in Burma near the 797th Engineer Forestry Company, a P-38 undergoing maintenance. During WWII.

P-38s in flight over SW China, French Indochina, or Burma, in the CBI, during WWII.

Remains of American P-38 aircraft “Butch II”--this was piloted by famous football star Tom Harmon. He had christened his P-38 “Butch II” after his girlfriend, actress Elyse “Butch” Knox, and had commissioned a painting designed by Walt Disney himself, whom Harmon had befriended in Hollywood: a rendition of the cartoon character Peg-­leg Pete, wearing Harmon’s football jersey, crushing a swastika...

Wrecked American aircraft in the boneyard at the American airbase (including a P-38)--many of these were used as salvage for spare and repair parts for planes that were still flying.

P-38s escort B-25 Mitchell bombers in the CBI--likely SW China, but maybe also Burma or Indochina.

B-25 Mitchell bombers and P-38s in flight in the CBI, in the area of southern China, Indochina, or Burma.