This Week in American Military History: Aug. 14, 1942:  U.S. Army Air Forces 2nd Lt. Elza E. Shahan, flying a P-38 Lightning, scores the first American aerial victory in the European theater of operations when he finishes off a previously damaged German Focke-Wulf 200 Condor near Iceland. Lockheed P-38 Lightning airplane “Yippee” (The 21st-century F-35 … Continue reading This Week in American Military History