{"id":240901,"date":"2025-06-24T09:01:18","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T23:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/how-many-p-38s-left\/"},"modified":"2025-06-24T09:01:18","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T23:01:18","slug":"how-many-p-38-lightnings-are-left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=240901","title":{"rendered":"How Many P-38 Lightnings Are Left?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The<span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2038464\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/how-effective-p-38-lightning\/\" >Lockheed P-38 Lightning was one of the most successful fighters of World War II<\/a><\/span> and saw service in every major theater of the conflict. The<span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"712744\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><span>P-38<\/span><\/span>, easily recognizable for its distinctive twin-boom design, was loved by the pilots who flew it, and it became one of the most produced fighters of the war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few dozen P-38s remain around the world. Around ten are airworthy, most of which are in the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,408,1624,13176,412,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-history","category-lockheed","category-lockheed-p-38-lightning","category-military","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=240901"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":240902,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240901\/revisions\/240902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=240901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=240901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=240901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}