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How a Farm Boy’s “Impossible” Trick Made Him Destroy 40 Japanese Planes... All Alone
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How a Farm Boy’s “Impossible” Trick Made Him Destroy 40 Japanese Planes... All Alone
September 1944, above Borneo. Major Richard Ira Bong eased his P-38 Lightning into a shallow dive, scanning the clouds for movement. Below, Japanese fighters climbed toward American B-24 bombers—unaware that one of the deadliest pilots in American history was positioning for the kill. By war’s end, this quiet farm boy from Poplar, Wisconsin, would achieve 40 confirmed aerial victories, making him the highest-scoring American ace of all time—a re…
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