Searchers announced Thursday they've discovered what they believe is the wreckage of World War II ace Richard Bong's plane in the South Pacific. The Richard I. Bong Veterans Historical Center in ...

MADISON, Wisconsin — Searchers announced Thursday they’ve discovered what they believe is the wreckage of World War II ace Richard Bong’s plane in the South Pacific. The Richard I.

Searchers announced this month that they've discovered what they believe is the wreckage of Bong's plane in the South Pacific. It suffered engine trouble with another pilot at the controls and ...

A Wisconsin museum is partnering with a historical preservation group in a search for the wreckage of World War II ace Richard Bong's plane in the South Pacific. Bong, who grew up in Poplar ...

Bong’s Lockheed P-38 Lightning, a plane perhaps as famous as the World ... is now Papua New Guinea in March 1944, leaving behind wreckage that has gone largely unexamined. Not for long.

(File/AP) A Wisconsin museum is partnering with a historical preservation group in a search for the wreckage of World War II ace Richard Bong’s plane in the South Pacific. The Richard I.

An underwater search and recovery team has found the wreckage of a World War II-era Navy war plane in Lake Washington ... beneath the surface off the lake's northwestern shore near Magnuson ...

His body washed ashore a few months later, but the plane’s wreckage lay scattered along the lake bottom, only disturbed by the movement of the waves and water until 2014 when it was discovered.

MADISON, Wis. — Searchers announced Thursday they’ve discovered what they believe is the wreckage of World War II ace Richard Bong’s plane in the South Pacific. The Richard I. Bong Veterans ...

Searchers announced Thursday, May 23, 2024, that they've discovered what they believe is the wreckage of World War II ace Bong's plane in the South Pacific. (AP Photo, File) ...

Captain Richard Bong points to a large picture of his girl friend, Marge Vattendahl, on his Lighting P-38 fighter plane pilot stationed at a New Guinea Air Base ...