The P-38 Lightning fighters were uniquely designed by Clarence Kelly Johnson's design team, the Skunk Works at Lockheed as a response to the 1937 United States Army Air Corps request for an interceptor. In October 1941, the first combat ready P-38 Lightning fighters rolled off of production lines, and by June 1942 they were seeing combat in the Aleutian Islands, where their endurance won great acclaims by their pilots. Production of the P-38 Lightning design lasted until the very end of the war, by then, 10,037 examples were built.

This book is signed by the following eight aviators and one tech rep who all have WWII history with the P-38 Lightning.  They are  John Mitchell, Dick Andrews, Colonel Dick Willsie, Joseph A Kuhn, Frank Hurlbut, Ray T. Barber, Colonel Robert "Bob" DeHaven, Pete Madison and Stumpy Hollinger  P-38 Tech Rep. 

This limited edition hard cover book was published, purchased, and stored since 1989 with signatures as shown in photographs.