Word: bonging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
...Major Richard Ira Bong, the ranking U.S. ace, last week went the Congressional Medal of Honor for "conspicuous gallantry . . . above and beyond the call of-duty" from Oct. 10 to Nov. 15. During that time 26-year-old Dick Bong, officially classed as a gunnery instructor, had volunteered to fight, had bagged eight Jap planes...
...citation did not mention Major Bong's score-36-and if it had, the figure would have been out of date. On the day the citation was made public. Bong went out over Leyte in his Lockheed and bagged two more. In the U.S. ace race he was four ahead of the next contender, the Navy's 34-year-old Commander David McCampbell, who was out of the contest for awhile-called home to show other Navymen...