Stars and Stripes

US, South Korea search seabed for Korean War aircraft and missing troops

U.S. and South Korean recovery teams are searching waters off the Korean Peninsula for wreckage from three U.S. military ...

America’s top ace’s plane crashed in 1944. A wingtip has finally made it home

A piece of a World War II fighter plane that crashed 80 years ago and belonged to the country’s top ace has been found and ...

Piece of Plane Flown by World War II Flying Ace Finally Comes Home

A search crew found the wreckage of Richard Bong’s missing plane on a Papua New Guinea hillside two years ago. Part of a wing ...
Smithsonian Magazine

This American Pilot Downed 40 Enemy Aircraft During World War II. Researchers Discovered the Wreck of His Plane in a Pacific Jungle and Brought a Wing Back to Hi…

Richard I. Bong, flying a plane decorated with a portrait of his future wife, Marge, became America's highest-scoring "ace" ...