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John F. Guilmartin

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BIOGRAPHY

Associate Professor of History, Ohio State University, Columbus. Author of Gunpowder and Galleys: Changing Technology and Mediterranean Warfare at Sea in the Sixteenth Century and others.

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The P-38 Lightning, built by the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation, was the only U.S. pursuit aircraft to remain in continuous production throughout World War II.

P-38

P-38, fighter and fighter-bomber employed by the U.S. Army Air Forces during World War II. A large and powerful aircraft, it served as a bomber escort, a tactical bomber, and a photo-reconnaissance platform. Of the three outstanding Army fighters of the war (the others being the P-47 Thunderbolt…