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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 Center in ...
The World War II mystery of what happened to a Finnish passenger plane after it was shot down over the Baltic Sea by Soviet bombers appears to finally be solved more than eight decades later. The ...
On November 12, 2022, two World War II–era aircraft, a B-17 Flying Fortress and a Bell P-63 Kingcobra, collided mid-air and crashed during the Wings Over Dallas air show at Dallas Executive Airport in Dallas, Texas, United States. [1] The air show, which coincided with Veterans Day commemorations, was organized by the Commemorative Air Force.
Silver is the only known Women Airforce Service Pilots member to go missing during World War II. [111] December 15, 1944: UC-64 Norseman (44-70285) 3 [112] Unknown North Atlantic Ocean (English Channel) No trace of the aircrew, passengers or plane found, possibly overflew bomb jettisoning area.
SUPERIOR, WIS. — The famous P-38 Lightning Fighter plane flown by World War II ace of aces Richard I. Bong — and decorated with a photograph of its namesake "Marge" — was discovered last ...
Glacier Girl is a Lockheed P-38 Lightning, World War II fighter plane, 41-7630, c/n 222-5757, restored to flying condition after being buried beneath the Greenland ice sheet for over 50 years. Glacier Girl was part of the Lost Squadron.
The plane was carrying American and French diplomatic couriers in June 1940 when it was downed just days before Moscow annexed the Baltic states. All nine people on board the plane were killed, including the two-member Finnish crew and the seven passengers — an American diplomat, two French, two Germans, a Swede and a dual Estonian-Finnish ...
Divers searching for World War II wreckage off Florida instead found a part of the Challenger shuttle that exploded on live TV in 1986, according to NASA.. The discovery was announced Nov. 10 ...