Captain Richard J. Bong nicknamed his Lighting P-38 fighter plane Marg after his girlfriend, Marge Vattendahl. The World War II flying ace is shown with his plan at a New Guinea Air Base on March 31, ...

The wreck of what was once known as the mysterious “the Ghost Ship of the Pacific” that fought on both sides of the Pacific theater in WWII has been discovered lying off the coast of California in ...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — 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 ...

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 ...

Lloyd Woo eases a motorboat through the clear blue waters of the Bismarck Sea in the southwestern Pacific, to the edge of a coral reef. When he sights a specific cluster of coconut palms on the shore ...

Last September, Justin Taylan received an email from a museum curator asking whether one of the most famous aircraft from World War II remained in Papua New Guinea where it crashed in 1944. As ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Searchers announced ...

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 ...