May 23—SUPERIOR — A team from Pacific Wrecks has discovered one of the most famous World War II aircraft, the P-38 Lightning fighter plane assigned to America's top Ace, Richard I. Bong. "We found her ...
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Lockheed P-38 Lightning part 2, how a deadly high altitude fighter nearly killed its own pilots
The P 38 Lightning shot down more enemy aircraft than any other US fighter in the Pacific, yet early pilots faced lethal dive lockups, frozen cockpits, and engine failures that nearly doomed the ...
The jubilation the search team felt when it discovered "Ace of Aces" Richard Bong's downed P-38 Lightning fighter plane in a South Pacific jungle reverberated more than 8,000 miles away in northern ...
Pacific Wrecks and Richard I. Bong Veterans Historical Center teamed up to recover a missing plane. Pacific Wrecks and Richard I. Bong Veterans Historical Center teamed up to recover the remains of ...
The Lockheed P-38 Lightning is an aircraft that opted to pen its name in capital letters in the annals of war flight. Modeled as a high-altitude fighter, this aircraft not only displayed phenomenal ...
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