The ace business was tied up again. Last month Major Richard Ira Bong, a P-38 Lightning pilot, shot down his 26th and 27th planes over New Guinea, breaking a tie which had long existed between two ...

To Major Richard Ira Bong, the ranking U.S. ace, last week went the Congressional Medal of Honor for “conspicuous gallantry . . . above and beyond the call of-duty” from Oct. 10 to Nov. 15. During ...

Bong State Recreation Area is named after Richard Ira Bong, America's World War II ace fighter pilot born in Poplar, Wis. In the mid-1950s, the Federal government purchased 5,540 acres in Racine and ...