Since everyone keeps insisting on calling the P38 a bomber...
 
 The Droop Snoot was equipped with a Plexiglas nose and an ultra-secret Norden bomb sight.  The bombardier was in the nose.
 
 The Pathfinder was a P-38J (or L) modified with special ground-mapping radar and served as the lead plane for P-38 formations who were bombing through cloud-covered targets.  It could often pick out targets and checkpoints which would otherwise be obscured by weather.  The operator was housed in the forward part of the gondola with a large side window, but did not have any forward visibility, which a Droop Snoot bombardier would have.