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July 1987*

President Reagan Lauds Lightning
Convention Post Op
Association Meets for the First Time
50th "Lightning" Anniversary for Famed P-38

January 1988 43 Years Later, Reunion in the Jungle
Convention Photo Album
From Lockheed's Own "Hanger Flying" (Issue 1, circa WWII)
Plaudits to a Hero, Jack Ilfrey
Ops Bulletin Board, including photo of "Scatterbrain Kid" being refurbished
P-38 WWII Combat Units Directory

May 1988 The Saga of the Sad Sack (P-38 F-15, #43-2112)
Escape from the Japanese (Tom Harmon's story)
Even Ferrying Had its Tense Moments (WASPs)
Nose Art Review

September 1988 Crew Chief Daze (a look at a P-38 crew chief's typical day)
Brother's Search is Rewarded
Who Shot Down Yamamoto?

January 1989 "Hot Rod" F-5 (F-5 #303 of the 30 PRS ("Earned more awards for its pilots than the rest of the Squadron's planes put together.")
How High Could You Fly in 1945?
More Nose Art Review
GI Annie and the 80 FS Headhunters

May 1989 Garland York "The Omaha Kid"
Here is Your War by Ernie Pyle
What a Pilot Thinks About in Battle
P-38 Combat Portfolio...a Photo Essay by Jeff Ethell
82FG - the ETO's Aerial Victory Leader
The Commonwealth's Lightning Experience

September 1989 The P-38: from the Other Side (Opinions from the designer of the Japanese Zero as well as from the Italians, Hungarians and Germans.)
P-38 versus Me-262 in 1944
Per Lucem Vincimus (Through Knowledge We Conquer) - Pictures and tales from "Photo Joes"
The Twin Dragon Squadron - the 459FS of the China/Burma/India Theater

January 1990 Mediterranean Ace: Sidney Weatherford
Lightning, Skill and Luck - Lt. Jay T. Robbins
Overall Phantom View of P-38J - Maintenance Instruction Chart (Nov 1944)
More Nose Art

May 1990 A Short War - a Long Battle - The Bert Shepard Story (who lost his leg in combat, had a fellow POW build him an artificial one - and went on to play major league baseball!)
A Reported KIA Returns

September 1990 A Lockheed Tech Rep Goes to War
Reunion 1990 - Photos and stories
Renegade Lightning - American P-38s flown by Axis pilots!

January 1991 Shot Down by Allies - After War's End
Reunited with a Trusted Friend - Wayne Rothgeb back with his P-38 after near 50 years.
Commercial Use of the P-38
The First Jet Shot Down by a P-38

May 1991 Tribute to Lockheed's Kelly Johnson
Who's On First? (A P-38 Pilot is the First to Set Foot on Japanese soil.)
Belly Tank Photographer
Cold Weather Testing the P-38
Nose Art in the Pacific
The XP-38 from Drawing Board Through Flight Test

September 1991 Across the Atlantic to England - The Bolero Ferrying Operation
A Rescue Mission Never Forgotten
 

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* FIRST EDITION (VOL 1, NO. 1)