Welcome to the home page of "Wild Bill" Boyd. This page is a remembrance and resource web site for those acquainted with the Lockheed P-38 Lightning, the finest flying machine to come out of WWII. I ought to know. I drove one.

"White Lightnin" at the 1994 P-38 National Association Reunion in Houston, Texas. Lefty Gardner is behind the stick doing a high speed pass at Scholes Field in Galveston,Texas. When the '38 made its debut it could outdive and outclimb anything the enemy had to offer. It remained in a class by itself until the end of WWII. Post war surplus airplanes played a significant role in third world military arsenals until the mid 1950s.

"Wild Bill" beside his P-38F-5B somewhere in the Pacific around 1944 while serving with the 28th Photo Recon.

"Putt Putt Maru" from the Lone Star Flight Museum in Galveston, Texas.

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28th PHOTO RECON NOSE ART "Comely Coolie" "Missouri Outlaw" "Mitchell Deb" "Foto Genii" "Awaiting Autumn"

Belly Landing - who needs landing gear?

Internal Camera Bay - the guts in the nose

P38 Field Photo Lab - one part developer, two parts mud

Aerial Welcome - a token acknowledgment from the enemy

Group Photo of the 28th - in the field as usual

Cockpit Photo Controls - from the original AAF manual

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