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...most famous figure in the most dashing of sports died last week in an airplane-a Mustang fighter he had been flying over Salisbury, England...
...after he put down his Lockheed Lightning on his home base, Dick Bong became a major. He had also a clear claim to the title "U.S. ace of aces," which had been claimed earlier by an unwary Eighth Air Force public relations officer in England for Mustang Pilot Don S. Gentile (TIME, April 17). As Captain Gentile's score of 30 includes seven grounded aircraft, there were no cries from England when Douglas MacArthur proclaimed Dick Bong...
...business" in U.S. fighter forces got out of bounds last week. The publicity-conscious Eighth Air Force made the whole business absurd by crediting a 23-year-old Mustang pilot, Captain Don Gentile (pronounced genteel) with 30 planes. Reason: seven of the planes had been shot up on the ground. Neither the R.A.F. nor any other Allied air force gives credit for grounded kills...
Also missing in action last week: Mustang pilot Lieut. Wau-Kau Kong, of Honolulu, self-styled "handsomest" (and only) Chinese fighter pilot with the U.S. Air Forces in Britain (TIME...
...Mustang turned into him and the Nazi peeled off into a diving turn. Ten thousand feet farther down the Mustang pilot nailed his man with a long close-in burst. First the FW's wheels fell out, then the plane exploded and its pieces tumbled earthward. Second Lieut. WauKau Kong, pilot of "Chinaman's Chance" and one of the U.S. Fighter Command's hottest aero-bats, had made his first kill...