Word: bonging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sirs: I believe your criticism of Frank Kluck-hohn's close-up of Major Richard Ira Bong (TiME, May 1) was unjustified. If the facts given were correct, and you did not seem to question them, I see no reason why a reporter should refer to Bong in "warm, sympathetic" tones...
...Bong is unquestionably an excellent combat pilot. He is risking his life daily (as are millions of others). He is the American Ace of Aces. For these things let him be given all possible credit. But these facts do not make him a charming social companion, a diplomat, or a conservative flyer and driver...
...said last week. (No Westerner rightly knows how Russian airmen's scores are figured.) Britain's Group Captain Adolph Gysbert ("Sailor") Malan and the late Brendan ("Paddy") Finucane, each with 32, are the Western Allies' top scorers; the U.S.'s are Major Richard Ira Bong and Captain Robert S. Johnson, each with...
With the air of a man stating a fact familiar to all, Dick Bong said that he had never been "a very hot shooter." He was assigned to go to school now to learn deflection shooting, which he would teach to new pilots. He made it clear that he did not think highly of the Air Forces system of gunnery instruction...
...worried public relations officer broke in, to put more tactful words in the hero's mouth. Bong accepted the amendment, but everyone could see that he was not particularly interested in public relations. His private opinion had been expressed...