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Richard Ira Bong came home last spring with 27 enemy planes to his credit, the country's leading ace. Soon cornfed, snub-nosed Dick Bong told home folks at Poplar, Wis. that he was through with combat flying. Lieut. General George Kenney had grounded him "because he didn't want to see me get killed." Major Bong settled down to a quiet life at gunnery school, while in Europe Lieut. Colonel Francis S. Gabreski shot down 28 planes, passing Bong's record. (Later, Gabreski was captured...
...serpent was about 50 feet away and going five miles an hour with a sort of undulating motion," said the auditor. "His head, which resembles that of a snub-nosed crocodile, was 18 inches above the water. I'd say he was 35 feet long...
...like a tour of O.D. duty-not fun, but necessary. Snub-nosed, wavy-haired Lightning Pilot Richard Ira Bong, one of the U.S.'s two top aces.† was on exhibition in Washington, and he took it that way, self-possessed, as a well-bred 23-year-old should...
...formidable South Seas base was suddenly fixed in hundreds of U.S. airmen's bombsights. Carrier planes -Avengers and Dauntless dive-bombers -hurtled across the green islands which lie within Truk's barrier coral reef, screamed down onto the shipping moored inside the 40-mile-wide lagoon. Snub-nosed Hellcats swirled into fights with Jap defenders, shot them from the air, caught plenty more ignominiously on the ground. After the first few hours there was no longer any doubt: the enemy had been caught napping...
Over the Messerschmitt plant at Brunswick last week, the Flying Fortress Frenesi squared away for her second run at the target. Then the fighters came, twin-engine jobs that slammed rockets into the formation, snub-nosed 190s that whirled through the Fortresses with their guns spitting like alley cats...