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Real Estate, Richard I. Bong Air Force Base Military Reservation Segment C
1956
Map of Richard I. Bong Air Force Base Military Reservation includes vicinity map, state index, segment index, and tract register of acquisition after 1 July, 1940. Top right reads "Preliminary Proj...
Marge Bong and General Kenney at Bong Memorial
May 1946
Marge Bong and General Kenney standing by a bust of Major Richard Ira Bong (1920-1945), at the Richard Bong Memorial dedication on Memorial Day.
Bong P-38 Memorial
1950
An early view of the Richard Ira Bong Memorial - a P-38, although not a plane that Bong himself flew. The plane was acquired from the Air Force by the local American Legion post. More recently Popl...
