Word: bonging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hard fights spaced two days apart, one over Manila Bay and one over Ormoc, Commander David McCampbell last week downed two more Jap planes, brought his air-combat total to 34. It was still two shy of Major Richard Bong's top score. But in some respects, the Navy ace's record was more remarkable...
...Over Ormoc on Leyte, icy-eyed Major Richard I. Bong knocked down two more Japanese fighters, ran his score to 36. ¶ Flying from his carrier, the Navy's top man, Commander David McCampbell, got two more over Manila, ran his score to 32. ¶Near Cebu, Major Thomas B. McGuire, the Army's No. 2 ace in the Pacific, bagged two Jap fighter bombers, ran his score...
Farm boy Dick Bong's top score of 33 Jap planes was almost broken in 95 minutes of furious fighting during the second battle of the Philippines, when Commander David McCampbell, piloting a Hellcat, shot down nine Jap fighters (plus two "probables"). McCampbell's air-combat total after his rampage: 30-which made him the second-ranking...
Still classed as a gunnery instructor, Major Richard Ira Bong, top U.S. fighter ace, landed last week with the first Army planes to be based on Leyte. When Jap planes were sighted, five hours later, Dick Bong went out to help intercept, soon scored a kill. By week's end he knocked down two more, bringing his total...
With belated but well verified credit for a 28th kill which he had made before he left the theater, Bong's two kills last week brought his total to 30. In the great U.S. ace race, Dick Bong was out in front again...