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. Bong Veterans ...

Lockheed P-38 Lightning nicknamed ‘Marge’ and flown by Bong crashed in 1944 over what is now Papua New Guinea ...

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 ...

Bong Veterans Historical Center in Superior has been on a mission to bring a piece of Major Bong’s P-38 “Marge” plane from Papua New Guinea. The wingtip was found in the jungles 82 years after the ...

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 ...

In June of this year, a group called “Mission Marge” traveled deep into the tangled jungles of Papua New Guinea to recover a battered piece of metal. It was the wingtip of a WWII P-38 fighter plane ...

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 ...

The remnants of a fighter jet, which belonged to one of the greatest fighter pilots of World War II, Richard Bong, are believed to have been found in Papua New Guinea. The plane, called "Marge," ...

On March 11, 1943, Major Richard Bong, flying an olive drab P-38 Lightning over North New Guinea, found himself alone against nine highly skilled Japanese KI-43 “Oscar” fighters escorting a formation ...

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FILE - Captain Richard J. Bong, of Poplar, Wis., 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, March 31, ...