This section is just for the FUN of it. It includes photos of fun or unusual uses of the P-38, and is strictly intended for those of us who are a little "over the top" about this classic plane!  You can click on most of the pictures to see a larger view of them.

So... You Might Just Love the P-38 .

 


... if you have it on your birthday cake!
 

(Contributed by Ed Baquet)

... if you have it on your Winchester!


  ...if you put it on your license plate!


(Contributed by long-time Association
Life Member and P-38 crew chief, Frank Gallup)

 

...if you can't find your way to the
latrine without one!
 

(Contributed by Dan Rendant)
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...if you just gotta ride one piggyback!


("Piggyback Certificate" contributed by
Bob Bozarth)

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...if you use them as reflectors on your
motorcycle helmet!
 

(Contributed by Association Member
and P-38 fan, Ron Parker)


..if you model your new automobile after it!
 
1948 CADILLAC

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(Both the Cadillac & the Studebaker did this!)

...if you create a topiary out of boxwood!


(
Contributed by Joe Kyte)


...if you put a big ole P38 on the wheel cover
of your RV!
 
P-38 Wheel cover
 (Contributed by Richard Earl
Hansen, Lt. Colonel, USAF Retired)

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... if you stick it on your shopping mall sign!
 

(Contributed by Mark Reynosa)

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...if you paint P-38 murals on your wall. 
 
Somewhere near Foggia, Italy, 1944

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This great photo was apparently taken in Foggia, Italy, around 1944 -- but we haven't been able to verify exactly where this beautiful mural was painted. (If any of you recognize it, let us know and we'll add the info here.)  Check out what they were using for ashtrays!  Diffused, of course.

(Contributed by Kelly B. Kalcheim.
That's my Dad, Ed Baquet, in the photo)


..when your sons start modeling their Derby cars after them.


(Contributed by Association Member and fan,
Mark & Becky Phillips and their boys, Luke & Tom.) 

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...if you don't leave home without one. 

Very cool decal, which the contributor created himself.


(Contributed by Hayman Tam, who also took
the cover photo on one of our recent issues
of Lightning Strikes, the P-38 Association's
membership publication.)

If you get very specific about your love of the P‑38.


(Contributed by James P Corbitt, long-time
member of the P-38 National Association)

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...if you make a boat out of spare P-38 parts!
 

(Contributed by Aileen Garra Lim - photo
was taken in Kunming, China, circa 1944.)

This is an unusual use for a P-38 tank.  Aileen Lim, whose father was Chief, 4th Photo Tech Unit, sent in this photo of him and his friend, Vernon Woods (also in the 4th Photo Tech Unit), who took an auxiliary gas tank from a P-38 and made it into an outrigger boat. Fun!

...if you put a bunch of them on your kitchen towel!


(Contributed by Association Member,
Hayman Tam)

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Also check out the photo below
of Hayman's P‑38 collection!)


... if it helps you to keep clean in the midst of WWII!


 (Contributed by Jim Corbett

Here Bob Bilello of Brooklyn, NY,  is
improvising a shower using  a P-38 droptank!
(9th PRS Website)

...if you've built a "P-38 Shrine" in your home!

You've got to click on this photo to view the enlarged version and truly appreciate all the P‑38 goodies that Hayman Tam has collected.  He has some unique items, as well as some very rare items (such as a piece of the "Glacier Girl" skin).  How many P‑38s can you count?  Check it out!


...if you not only wear it on your back,
but on your transportation!

Seems Marty Potts is a fan.
Not only does he have this beautiful
jacket, he also lets the whole world
know about this admiration for the 38!

...if you're willing to do THIS just to
ride in one again after 50 years.


(Contributed by Ed Baquet.)

Roger Weatherbee was a P-38 pilot with
the 49th Fighter Squadron in Foggia, Italy.

 

 
Do you have a photo of any "unique" uses for the P-38?

If so, email (or snail mail) it to us, and we'll add it to this page, giving you full photo credit, of course!

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