Gordon Longville took a new picture for his scrapbook Thursday. "This is history, good history," said the Poplar man at the groundbreaking for the Richard I. Bong World War II Heritage Center in ...
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 ...
Richard Ira Bong came home last spring with 27 enemy planes to his credit, the country’s leading ace. Soon cornfed, snub-nosed Dick Bong told home folks at Poplar, Wis. that he was through with combat ...
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