One of the most famous aircraft of the United States militarywhich was lost in the jungles of New Guinea in the South Pacific 80 years ago during world war II, was recently found thanks to an expedition that began in March 2024.
The plane that stars in this story is the Lockheed P-38 Lightning, which belonged to the famous pilot Richard Bong, a farmer from far northwest Wisconsin who gained international fame during World War II, the outlet reported MPR News.
The famous militia plane He had a characteristic that made him unique and thanks to this he received the nickname Marge, It had a huge photograph of Captain Richard Bong’s wife, Marjorie Vattendahl, attached to it.
At that time, The fighter plane gained worldwide fame and the pilot’s wife became “the most persecuted girl in the South Pacific”the renowned Captain Bong jokingly stated, the newspaper published Los Angeles Times.
They find the famous ‘Marge’ plane, a treasure from World War II, which belonged to the United States
The plane was shot down when another man was piloting the famous aircraft and they never managed to recover it. That changed when a project partially funded by the Richard I. Bong Veterans Historical Center and headed by the company Pacific Wrecks, a non-profit charity dedicated to bringing home those missing in action and harnessing new technologies in the study of past conflicts, managed to find it.
Once they started digging to rescaping the plane, they found the serial number, which confirmed that it was indeed America’s Ace of Aces. According to the aforementioned media, Bong managed to shoot down 40 Japanese planes during World War II, which represents more enemy ships than the rest of the American pilots. This record remains to this day.
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