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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 many of the pictures to see a larger view of them.

… 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.

…if you just gotta ride one piggyback!

“Piggyback Certificate” contributed by Bob Bozarth.

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

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

If you design your tail fins to look like the Lightning!

1948 Cadillac

…if you create a topiary out of boxwood!

Topiary contributed by Joe Kyte.

…if you put a big ole P38 on the wheel cover of your RV!

Contributed by Richard Earl Hansen, Lt. Colonel, USAF Ret.

…if you stick it on your shopping mall sign!

Contributed by Mark Reynosa.

If you have a P-38 mural painted on the wall.

Contributed by Kelly Baquet Kalcheim.
P-38 pilot, Ed Baquet, sitting by a P-38 mural in Foggia, Italy, 1944.

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

Contributed by Mark, Becky, Luke and Tom Phillips.

…when your daughter puts a P-38 on her graduation mortarboard

Contributed by Bob Alvis.

…if you don’t leave home without one.

Contributed by Hayman Tam.

…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.

When you use a P-38 drop tank to make a tower

Contributed by Jim Corbett

If you use a P-38 auxiliary gas tank for an outrigger

Contributed by Aileen Garra Lim, whose father sent in this photo of him and his friend, Vernon Woods, (both in the 4th Photo Tech Unit), using an auxiliary gas tank and made it into an outrigger!

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

Contributed by Association Member Hayman Tam.

…if you’ve built a “P-38 Shrine” in your home!

Contributed by Hayman Tam, long-time member of the P-38 National Association.. Click on this photo to view the enlarged version and truly appreciate all the P‑38 goodies that Hayman 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?

…if you not only wear it on your back

Contributed by Marty Potts.

…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 49th Fighter Squadron in Foggia, Italy

..if you put it on your transportation

Contributed by Marty Potts. 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 also put it on your transportation

Contributed by Association member, the late Ed Rothermund.

Amazon has several P-38 license frames HERE.

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