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Richard "Dick" Ira Bong (September 24, 1920 – August 6, 1945) was a United States Army Air Forces major and Medal of Honor recipient in World War II.He was one of the most decorated American fighter pilots and the country's top flying ace in the war, credited with shooting down 40 Japanese aircraft, all with the Lockheed P-38 Lightning.
A Wisconsin museum is partnering with a historical preservation group in a search for the wreckage of World War II ace Richard Bong's plane in the South Pacific. The Richard I. Bong Veterans ...
The Richard I. Bong Veterans Historical Center in Superior, Wisconsin, and the nonprofit World War II historical preservation group Pacific Wrecks announced in March they were launching a joint ...
Richard Bong's P-38 Lightning, nicknamed 'Marge' was flown by another pilot on March 24, 1944, when it crashed due to mechanical troubles.
44-53097 Lizzie V / Wyandotte Mich. – Museum of Flight in Seattle, Washington. [38] [39] 44-53232 (unnamed) – National Museum of the United States Air Force at Wright-Patterson AFB in Dayton, Ohio. [40] 44-53236 Marge – Richard I. Bong Veterans Historical Center in Superior, Wisconsin. [41] Under restoration or in storage P-38H
The 475th was perhaps the best known of the theater's Lockheed P-38 Lightning groups since its personnel included the top flying aces in the Pacific: Richard I. Bong (40 kills) and Thomas B. McGuire, Jr. (38 kills), both Medal of Honor recipients. By the war's end, 38 other pilots from the 475th had achieved ace status in P-38s.
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 ...
Richard Bong from Poplar, Wisconsin is recognized as the United States' all time "Ace of Aces". Charles Lindbergh and his visit to Milwaukee after the historic non-stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean. James A. Lovell, Jr. is a former NASA astronaut and commander of the infamous Apollo 13 mission.