- World War Two
- United States Army Air Forces (USAAF)
- P-38F - with inboard underwing racks for drop tanks or 2000 lb of bombs, 527 built.
- P-38G - with modified radio equipment, 1082 built.
- P-38H - capable of carrying 3200 lb of underwing bombs & an automatic oil radiator flaps, 601 built.
- P-38J - improved chin radiators, flat bullet proof windscreens, power-boosted ailerons and increased fuel capacity, 2970 built.
- P-38J/L "Droopsnoot" / "Pathfinder" - fitted with a Norden bombsight or an H2X radar system, leading a formation of medium and heavy bombers or other P-38s, each loaded with two 2,000 lb (907 kg) bombs; the entire formation releasing their ordinance when the pathfinder did.
- F-5E - reconnaissance variant converted from the P-38J and P-38L, 705 converted.
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