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Richard Bong
Richard Bong
was the top scoring ace of WWII, shooting down 40
enemy aircraft. He began flying his P-38 in the Pacific Theater in late
1942 and had already surpassed Eddie Rickenbacker’s 26 kills by April of
1943. Bong achieved his 40th and final kill in 1944. He went on
to become a test pilot of jet fighters, but died tragically on a routine
flight when his P-80 malfunctioned after takeoff, on the same day the
first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima.
Photo Courtesy: Richard I. Bong World War II Heritage Center
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