Richard Bong downed 40 aircraft in a Lockheed P-38 Lightning before it crashed while being flown by another pilot
A Wisconsin museum is partnering with a historical preservation group in a search for the wreckage of the second world war ace fighter pilotThe Richard I Bong Veterans Historical Center in Superior, Wisconsin, and the non-profit second world war historical preservation group Pacific Wrecks announced the search on Friday,, is known for shooting down 40 Japanese aircraft during the second world war.
Bong said at the time that Vattendahl “looks swell, and a hell of a lot better than these naked women painted on most of the airplanes”, the Los Angeles Times reported in Vattendahl’s 2003 obituary.Pacific Wrecks founder Justin Taylan will lead the search for the plane. He plans to leave for Papua New Guinea in May.Taylan told Minnesota Public Radio that he’s confident he’ll find the wreckage since historical records provide an approximate location of the crash site.
Bong shot down more planes than any other American pilot, earning him celebrity status. Gen Douglas MacArthur awarded him the Medal of Honor, the US military’s highest decoration, in 1944.
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