The P-80 won the name Shooting Star for its speed: It was the first jet to exceed 500 mph in level ... one informing the world of the U.S. atom bomb attack on Hiroshima, the other about the ...

One of those oft-forgotten systems in that often-overlooked war is the Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star. In fact, the Shooting Star was America’s first operational jet fighter in the Korean War.

For the United States, that transition began with the Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star, America’s first operational jet fighter.