Word: bonging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
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...
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...
...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...