U.S. WWII Ace Richard Bong’s P-38 Believed Found The fighter aircraft, which crashed in 1944, has been identified and verified in Papua New Guinea.

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 ...

You're probably familiar with the P-38 Lightning, the P-47 Thunderbolt, and the P-51 Mustang, but do you know what the P in their names stands for?

Lockheed's P-38 introduced the concept of the interceptor a fighter aircraft of great speed and high rate of climb. As WWII progressed the lighting was developed in to a wide range of roles ...

It flew across the Pacific in World War II, and was scrapped and buried in Papua New Guinea afterward — but the Lockheed P-38 Lightning landed a home Thursday at the National Museum of World War ...

The Bong Veterans Historical Center and Pacific Wrecks announce that Richard Bong's P-38 fighter plane, "Marge", has been discovered in Papua New Guinea. The aircraft was lost in 1944.

Second Lt. Robert R. Keown was piloting his P-38 aircraft to an airfield after a mission in 1944 when it crashed into a mountain in Papua New Guinea. World War II ended without Keown’s family ...

A P-38 Lightning, nicknamed "Echo," from the "Lost Squadron" of WWII aircraft, was discovered buried under 340 feet of ice in Greenland. The plane was part of a group of aircraft forced down in a ...