"Expedition Launched to Find Wreckage of Ace Pilot Richard Bong's Crashed Plane"

The Richard I. Bong Veterans Historical Center in Superior, Wisconsin, and the nonprofit World War II historical preservation group Pacific Wrecks are teaming up to search for the wreckage of World War II ace Richard Bong's plane, which crashed in the South Pacific in 1944. Bong, credited with shooting down 40 Japanese aircraft, flew a Lockheed P-38 Lightning fighter plane named "Marge." The search, led by Pacific Wrecks founder Justin Taylan, aims to find conclusive evidence of the plane's identity and will cost about $63,000.