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How a Farm Boy’s “Impossible” Trick Made Him Destroy 40 Japanese Planes... All Alone

September 1944, above Borneo. Major Richard Ira Bong eased his P-38 Lightning into a shallow dive, scanning the clouds for movement. Below, Japanese fighters climbed toward American B-24 bombers—unaware that one of the deadliest pilots in American history was positioning for the kill. By war’s end, this quiet farm boy from Poplar, Wisconsin, would achieve 40 confirmed aerial victories, making him the highest-scoring American ace of all time—a re…Poplar · Poplar Read Article

South Range man sentenced to prison for stabbing father in back

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POPLAR — A South Range man who stabbed his father in the back during an argument over beer outside a Poplar gas station was sentenced to three years in prison. Daniel Barry Sanda, 29, was sentenced July 16 in Douglas County Circuit Court. He pleaded guilty on May 7 to felony counts of domestic aggravated battery with use of a dangerous weapon and battery to a law enforcement officer. One count of domestic first-degree reckless injury with use of…Poplar · Poplar Read Article