How a Farm Boy’s “Impossible” Trick made Him Destroy 40 Japanese Planes... All Alone

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September 1944, above Borneo, Major Richard Ira Bong eased his P38 Lightning into a shallow dive. Twin Allison engines purring with 3,000 combined horsepower as he scanned the sky below through his bulletproof windscreen. Japanese fighters were climbing desperately toward a formation of American B-24 Liberators, unaware that one of the deadliest fi... Read More