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World War II Fighter Wreck of America's Top Ace Recovered from Jungles of Papua New Guinea
- A team from Pacific Wrecks recovered the famous World War II P-38 Lightning fighter wreck from Papua New Guinea and transported it to Oshkosh, Wisconsin.
- Pacific Wrecks partnered with the Richard I. Bong Veterans Historical Center, the Wisconsin Air National Guard, and the U.S. Embassy in Port Moresby for the recovery effort.
- The aircraft belonged to Richard I. Bong, America's top Ace credited with shooting down 40 Japanese aircraft.
- The Wisconsin Air National Guard flew the recovered fighter and the Pacific Wrecks team back to the U.S. aboard a KC-135 Stratotanker, with plans to showcase it at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh.
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World War II Fighter Wreck of America's Top Ace Recovered from Jungles of Papua New Guinea
KC-135 Stratotanker Transports Artifact to EAA AirVenture Oshkosh Airshow to Honor American Hero
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Imagine a man whom his own country struck off from the living, inscribed on official records as dead in 1959, and yet, thousands of kilometers from Tokyo, continued to wage a war completed for fourteen years. This man was called Hiroo Onoda. An intelligence officer of the Japanese Imperial Army, he pursued alone [...] More
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