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...Frank L. Kluckhohn is regarded by his colleagues as an energetic but sometimes foot-in-mouth reporter. Last week in the Southwest Pacific, Correspondent Kluckhohn gave them another example of his style: a close-up of the U.S. "Ace of Aces"-stocky, 23-year-old Major Richard Ira Bong (TIME, April 24). Correspondent Kluckhohn doubtless meant his story to be warm, sympathetic, Ernie Pyle-like. If so, he missed his target by a wide margin. Wrote...
...Asked . . how it felt to have shot down more planes officially than any other American-27-Major Bong replied he felt just the same as before except that he had a 'gripe' . . . 'you guys for one thing...
...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...