Wreckage From A Famous WWII Plane Named After The Fighter Pilot’s Girlfriend Was Found In The Jungles Of Papua New Guinea

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Wreckage From A Famous WWII Plane Named After The Fighter Pilot’s Girlfriend Was Found In The Jungles Of Papua New Guinea

In the South Pacific, a search team found what they believed to be the wreckage of a plane flown by Richard Bong, a fighter pilot who was America’s top flying ace in World War II. He shot down 40 Japanese aircraft during World War II, all with the Lockheed P-38 Lightning fighter. A nonprofit World War II aircraft recovery group named Pacific Wrecks and the Richard I. Bong Veterans Historical Center in Superior, Wisconsin, collaborated to search …