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...Women. In northern Luzon, the 32nd Division's all-male 107th Medical Battalion baseball team played the Bayom-bong Filipino Girls' Club, lost the game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 10, 1945 | 9/10/1945 | See Source »

Major Richard I. Bong's 21-year-old widow, Marjorie, announced that she had started writing a biography of the ace of aces a month before his death (without telling him) and would now settle down to finishing it, in Hollywood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Facts and Figures | 8/20/1945 | See Source »

Killed in Service. Major Richard Ira Bong, 24, U.S. ace of aces (40 Jap planes); in the crash of a Lockheed P-80 jet fighter; at Burbank, Calif. The round-faced, snub-nosed flyer returned from the Pacific last January, married his Wisconsin sweetheart and was assigned to test-flying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 13, 1945 | 8/13/1945 | See Source »

Major Richard Ira Bong, 24, snub-nosed U.S. ace of aces (40 Jap planes), was newspictured in the snows at Sequoia National Park, Calif., where he and his bride of three weeks are honeymooning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Fresh Start | 3/5/1945 | See Source »

Married. Major Richard Ira Bong, 24, snub-nosed U.S. ace of aces (40 Jap planes); and Marjorie Ann Vattendahl, 21, teachers college graduate whose blown-up photograph glamorized his P-38; in Superior, Wis. Nine A.A.F. officers proxied for one absent wedding guest: ailing five-star General H. H. ("Hap") Arnold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: MILESTONES | 2/19/1945 | See Source »

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