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...other side of India, northeast of Calcutta and south of the realm of the Bong of Wong, the Maharaja of Manipur celebrated his coronation-three years late. Because of the Japanese threat to India, he had postponed the ceremony. Taking to wife a third "wartime" bride on the advice of his high priest (three wives can better rule a ruler's heart than two in time of crisis), he had decided to wait patiently for the Japanese to go. Now, with the Japanese gone, he was back in his capital again. Up to his bomb-wrecked coronation hall...
...Major Richard Ira Bong (40 planes) has returned from battle...
Major Richard Ira Bong, snub-nosed, wavy-haired U.S. Ace of Aces (40 Jap planes), returned from the Southwest Pacific, where he had burned up the skies since last September, promptly set off to visit his fiancee, Marge Vattendahl of Superior, Wis., whom he plans to marry...
Acid Test. The real test-battle-only confirmed their liking. On Jan. 8, a young flyer of the Ninth named Richard Bong scored the fifth kill that made him an ace. Other scores soon piled up to compete with his. Quickest to become an ace was Captain James A. Watkins, who in one week ran his total from one to eleven. But by then Dick Bong...
...first U.S. fighter outfit to hit the Philippines. In October the Forty-niners arrived on Leyte, to base there. They could boast of having bred most of the Southwest Pacific's fighter aces, including eleven currently in action. Their biggest continuing source of pride is Major Bong, now a roving gunnery instructor who occasionally roves with his old buddies. On a sweep over Mindoro last week, Dick Bong bagged his second Jap fighter in a week, ran his score...