The jubilation the search team felt when it discovered "Ace of Aces" Richard Bong's downed P-38 Lightning fighter plane in a South Pacific jungle reverberated more than 8,000 miles away in northern ...

The Bong Veterans Historical Center and Pacific Wrecks have announced that the Richard Bong’s P-38 fighter plane, “Marge,” has been discovered in Papua New Guinea. The discovery was the result of a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. SUPERIOR, WIS. — The famous P-38 Lightning Fighter plane flown by World War II ace of aces Richard I. Bong — and decorated with a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bong, who was known as the “Ace of Aces,” took down all 40 of those Japanese fighter planes while flying the same aircraft: a ...

This is the story of P-38 Lightning Fighter "Glacier Girl" that was frozen in ice for more than 50 years. This was made using the World War II flight simulator IL-2 Sturmovik Great Battles series.

The wreckage of a World War 2 fighter plane flown by Wisconsin ace pilot Richard I. Bong has been discovered in the jungle of Papua New Guinea, explorers have claimed. The plane was flown by Bong when ...

Experience the intense aerial combat of October 29th, 1943, as Second Lieutenant Christopher Bartlett, flying a P-38 Lightning with the 475th Fighter Group, faces overwhelming Japanese forces over ...

Army Air Force Capt. Richard Bong points to a large picture of his girlfriend, Marge Vattendahl, on his P-38 fighter plane, March 31, 1944. (File/AP) A Wisconsin museum is partnering with a historical ...

The first P-38s became operational with the 1st Fighter Group in April 1941, and the initial combat deployments were made in Alaska, the Southwest Pacific and North Africa during the latter part of ...