A Lockheed P-38 Lightning fighter aircraft from the US 475th Fighter Group at Lingayen Airfield in the Philippines Islands. World War II in the Pacific ocean.
The large external fuel tank on this P-38 Lightning has a capacity of 310 US gallons (1,171 L), and the small tank has a capacity of 165 US gallons (623 L).
The Lockheed P-38 Lightning fighter aircraft was distinguished by its unusual appearance. This machine, designed in the USA in the late 1930s by Lockheed engineers, was a monoplane fighter with two tail fuselage booms, on which a horizontal and two-finned vertical tail were installed, and a central gondola, which housed the pilot’s cabin and the nose machine gun and cannon. weapons, as well as the front landing gear.
Location: Lingayen, Luzon, Philippines, Pacific
Time when the photo was taken: August 25, 1945