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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Married. Marjorie Vattendahl Bong, 22, comely widow of U.S. Ace of Aces (40 kills) Major Richard I. Bong; and James H. Baird, 22, youthful Los Angeles businessman; she for the second time, he for the first; in Hollywood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 11, 1946 | 11/11/1946 | See Source »

Married. Major Richard Ira Bong, 24, snub-nosed U.S. ace of aces (40 Jap planes); and Marjorie Ann Vattendahl, 21, teachers college graduate whose blown-up photograph glamorized his P-38; in Superior, Wis. Nine A.A.F. officers proxied for one absent wedding guest: ailing five-star General H. H. ("Hap") Arnold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: MILESTONES | 2/19/1945 | See Source »

Major Richard Ira Bong, snub-nosed, wavy-haired U.S. Ace of Aces (40 Jap planes), returned from the Southwest Pacific, where he had burned up the skies since last September, promptly set off to visit his fiancee, Marge Vattendahl of Superior, Wis., whom he plans to marry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jan. 15, 1945 | 1/15/1945 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF THE SKIES: Bong | 4/24/1944 | See Source »

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