Lightning Strikes - Back Issues (P-38 National Association Membership Publication)

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date	SAMPLE ARTICLES	PURCHASE
date	SAMPLE ARTICLES	PRICE $5.00 (includes shipping)
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)