New Aviation Newsletter by P-38 Owner

Allied Fighters, in Chino, CA, has a newsletter online now that you’re going to enjoy. This is the outfit, as you know, which owns one of the few surviving and very active P-38s. One of their pilots, Jeffrey Harris, is a good friend to the P‑38 National Association and can often be found at the [...]

Lefty Gardner Passes Away

We received the following messge from Ladd Gardner for those of you who may have known his Dad, Lefty, the former owner of the P-38 known as “White Lightnin’” — now owned by the Flying Bulls in Austria:
Fellow P38 Lovers,
My dad’s funeral will be held at Trinity Baptist Church, 800 Jackson Rd., Kerrville, TX 78028 [...]

Lost Squadron Pilot to Appear

We just received word that the sole surviving pilot from the Lost Squadron (the doomed P-38 flight known as Operation Bolero) will be speaking on Veteran’s Day at the Delaware Valley Historical Aircraft Association’s “Profiles in Aviation” series on Tuesday, November 11th, at 7:00 p.m.
You may already know that the P-38 later christened “Glacier Girl” [...]

Another P-38 Pilot Returns Home

Back in September we mentioned the good work of the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC) in recovering remains of missing American military, and they’ve done it again (This time it is 2nd Lt. Ray D. Packard, U.S. Army Air Forces, of Atwood, CA.)  Here’s an excerpt from an article I just read:
“On Aug. 25, 1944, [...]

P-38 Crash – Part Posted on eBay

If any of you have a spare US$700 (to start), I see an eBay seller has a couple of parts up for bids from the April, 1944, crash of Wing Commander Adrian Warburton, who was shot down over Germany during the war.  He has some photos of the parts, as well as some photo documentation [...]