This story is a collaboration with Biography.com. Bong, who was known as the “Ace of Aces,” took down all 40 of those Japanese fighter planes while flying the same aircraft: a Lockheed P-38 Lightning ...
After more than eight decades, the mystery of a missing World War II aircraft and its Australian crew has finally been solved, with wreckage discovered in Papua New Guinea confirmed as the downed ...
A metal detectorist is trying to find the family of a WWII pilot after finding 1,500 pieces of his downed Spitfire in woodlands. Danny Jones stumbled across the 1942 crash site near Henley-on-Thames, ...