Word: aced
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Argentina last week played an ace. But perhaps not a trump...
Still classed as a gunnery instructor, Major Richard Ira Bong, top U.S. fighter ace, landed last week with the first Army planes to be based on Leyte. When Jap planes were sighted, five hours later, Dick Bong went out to help intercept, soon scored a kill. By week's end he knocked down two more, bringing his total...
...sleeping on an iron cot in a flimsy wooden house, something like a run-down American beach cottage, in the town of Tacloban. Several correspondents were staying there. Asahel ("Ace") Bush of the Associated Press and John Terry of the Chicago Daily News were in one room, Stanley Gunn of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Clete Roberts of the Blue Network and I in another, John Dowling of the Chicago Sun in a third...
With belated but well verified credit for a 28th kill which he had made before he left the theater, Bong's two kills last week brought his total to 30. In the great U.S. ace race, Dick Bong was out in front again...
Richard Ira Bong came home last spring with 27 enemy planes to his credit, the country's leading ace. Soon cornfed, snub-nosed Dick Bong told home folks at Poplar, Wis. that he was through with combat flying. Lieut. General George Kenney had grounded him "because he didn't want to see me get killed." Major Bong settled down to a quiet life at gunnery school, while in Europe Lieut. Colonel Francis S. Gabreski shot down 28 planes, passing Bong's record. (Later, Gabreski was captured...