Word: bonging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...superintendent of the Iowa Anti-Saloon League urged Eddie Rickenbacker "to consider the far-reaching implications of your press endorsement of whiskey for American flyers." Douglas MacArthur said he did not consider "liquor or spirituous wines as appropriate recognition for Bong's deeds...
This baffled Rickenbacker, who told newsmen MacArthur had matched his offer 16 months ago with the promise of a case of champagne. But it probably made no difference to Bong-he is a teetotaler anyhow...
...Desk. Major Bong had other worries. He was now assigned to the desk job he had been trying to escape for months. But few thought he would be deskbound for long...
...picture was battle-worn, oil-flecked. Major Bong told reporters he was going to put on a brand-new photo. Then the P-38 would be ready to fight again...
This week fellow airmen saw Dick Bong pottering about his P-38, Marge, surveying the oversize photograph of his girl, Marge Vattendahl, blazoned on its side. Slim, 20-year-old Marge is a senior at Superior (Wis.) State Teachers' College, met Dick last November when he was home on leave and a guest at the college (where his job was to crown the homecoming queen). Dick took Marge home that night, dated her from then on. When he went back to action, her picture and name went on his famed Lockheed...