The Lockheed P-38 Lightning is a World War II–era American piston-engined fighter aircraft. Developed for the United States Army Air Corps, the P-38 had distinctive twin booms and a central nacelle containing the cockpit and armament. Allied propaganda claimed it had been nicknamed the fork-tailed devil (German: der Gabelschwanz-Teufel) by the Luftwaffe and "two planes, one pilot" (2飛行機、1パイロット Ni hikōki, ippairotto) by the Japanese.[6] The P-38 was used for interception, dive bombing, level bombing, ground attack, night fighting, photo reconnaissance, radar and visual pathfinding for bombers and evacuation missions,[7]and extensively as a long-range escort fighter when equipped with drop tanks under its wings.
Medal of Honor: Underground[]
P-38s appear in the mission Ally in the Desert were they drop bombs on the Germans each time Manon Batiste takes out an AA gun.
Medal of Honor: Frontline[]
In the mission Nijmegen Bridge when the player reaches a bunker, three P-38s fly overhead and are shot at by a German flak gun, one unlucky P-38 is hit and crashes in the distance.
One P-38 flew over the base in the level Under the Radar.
In the final mission of the game Stealing the Show, after the player kills Sturmgeist, the player hijacks the German prototype aircraft Horten H.IX and will witness P-38s strafing and bombing the airfield, two P-38 Lightnings also escort the player at the end.
Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault[]
P-38 appears only in the cutscene before the "Flyboys" mission. It is not known whether he was supposed to appear in the game or not.
