“Dick was home on leave and was asked to pin the crown or put the crown on the Homecoming King at the annual Homecoming Dance at UW-Superior, which then was known as Superior State Teachers College.

The Richard I Bong Veterans Historical Center kicked off Memorial Day weekend and summer with a Family Fun Day on Saturday. The event included K-9 demos from the Douglas County Humane Society, a ...

Gov. Jim Doyle has approved a $1.6 million project to replace the terminal building at Superior's Richard I. Bong Memorial Airport. State funds will cover $366,945 of the project, the city of Superior ...

Two people walked away uninjured after their single-engine plane crash-landed at the Richard I. Bong Memorial Airport in Superior on Wednesday afternoon. The Superior Fire Department responded to the ...

SUPERIOR, WIS. — The famous P-38 Lightning Fighter plane flown by World War II ace of aces Richard I. Bong — and decorated with a photograph of its namesake "Marge" — was discovered last week ...

DULUTH - Richard I. Bong’s Lockheed P-38 Lightning, a plane perhaps as famous as the World War II ace from northwestern Wisconsin who piloted it, crashed in a jungle near the north coast of what is ...