Official caption: "1943-04-13. New Guinea. Lockheed Lightnings (P38) in flight. (Negative by N. Brown)."  An Australian photographer captures two USAAF Lightnings doing a low-level beat-up of the airfield.  Note the single fuel tank. TBF

New Guinea. Lockheed Lightnings

Boeing B-17s of the 96th Bombardment Squadron, 2nd Bomb Group (Heavy) at this time headquartered at Amendola, Foggia Airfield Complex, Italy, en route to a target of Ploesti’s area, the Romana Americana Refinery, Rumania, 10 June 1944. Above, one of the escort fighters P-38J "Lightning" of the 1st Fighter Group based at Salsola Airfield (Foggia Satellite #3), Foggia Airfield Complex. The 2nd were one of six Bomb Groups of the 5th Bomb Wing, USAAF’s 15th Air Force. Victor Sierra

En route to Ploesti

Malta. July 1943. RAAF ground crew examine an F-4 Lockheed Lightning photo-reconnaissance aircraft.  Photographer Laurence C Le Guay.   TBF