{"id":62799,"date":"2024-03-24T02:06:59","date_gmt":"2024-03-23T17:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/mar\/23\/richard-bong-fighter-plane-search-papua-new-guinea"},"modified":"2024-03-24T02:06:59","modified_gmt":"2024-03-23T17:06:59","slug":"group-to-search-for-celebrated-us-pilots-fighter-plane-in-south-pacific","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=62799","title":{"rendered":"Group to search for celebrated US pilot\u2019s fighter plane in South Pacific"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Bong downed 40 aircraft in a Lockheed P-38 Lightning before it crashed while being flown by another pilot<\/p>\n<p>A Wisconsin museum is partnering with a historical preservation group in a search for the wreckage of the second world war ace fighter pilot <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20171001031202\/http:\/\/www.nationalaviation.org\/our-enshrinees\/bong-richard\/\">Richard Bong<\/a>\u2019s plane in the South Pacific.<\/p>\n<p>The Richard I Bong Veterans Historical Center in Superior, Wisconsin, and the non-profit second world war historical preservation group Pacific Wrecks announced the search on Friday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mprnews.org\/story\/2024\/03\/21\/eight-decades-after-it-crashed-expedition-launched-to-find-americas-ace-of-aces-plane\">Minnesota Public Radio<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/mar\/23\/richard-bong-fighter-plane-search-papua-new-guinea\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Bong downed 40 aircraft in a Lockheed P-38 Lightning before it crashed while being flown by another pilotA Wisconsin museum is partnering with a historical preservation group in a search for the wreckage of the second world war ace fighter pilo&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,874,267,220,473,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-pacific-islands","category-papua-new-guinea","category-second-world-war","category-us-military","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62799"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62800,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62799\/revisions\/62800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}