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 ...

P-38J Lightning 42-103993 nicknamed “Marge,”with Captain Richard I. Bong in the cockpit. The jubilation the search team felt when it discovered "Ace of Aces" Richard Bong's downed P-38 Lightning ...

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, is ...

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 Historical ...

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

DULUTH - Richard I. Bong’s Lockheed P-38 Lightning, a plane perhaps as famous as the World War II ace from northwestern Wisconsin who piloted it, crashed in a jungle near the north coast of what is ...

The Richard I. Bong Center is organizing an expedition for the to search for the famous Lockheed P-38 Lightning, “Marge”. The aircraft crashed in Papa New Guinea 80 years ago. The historical center is ...

The season's first snow is here for many in the D.C area, with up to 2 inches and slick travel early Friday. 2 years ago Richard Bong, who grew up in Poplar, Wisconsin, is credited with shooting down ...