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. P-38J Lightning 42-103993 nicknamed “Marge,”with Captain Richard I. Bong in the cockpit. The jubilation the search team felt when ...

NEW YORK -- Sixty-five years after an American P-38 fighter plane ran out of gas and crash-landed on a beach in Wales, the long-forgotten World War II relic has emerged from the surf and sand where it ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - Captain Richard J. Bong, of Poplar, Wis., points to a large picture of his girl friend, Marge Vattendahl, on his Lighting P ...

TheLockheed P-38 Lightning was one of the most successful fighters of World War II and saw service in every major theater of the conflict. TheP-38, easily recognizable for its distinctive twin-boom ...

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 ...

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 ...

Before the arrival of the vaunted North American P-51D Mustang, towards the end of World War II, U.S. forces relied on other, less superlative aircraft for long-range bomber escorts—primarily the ...