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MILITARY PERSONNEL

Richard Bong

1920 - 1945

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Richard "Dick" Ira Bong (September 24, 1920 – August 6, 1945) was a United States Army Air Forces major and Medal of Honor recipient in World War II. He was one of the most decorated American fighter pilots and the country's top flying ace in the war, credited with shooting down 40 Japanese aircraft, all with the Lockheed P-38 Lightning fighter. He died in California while testing a Lockheed P-80 jet fighter shortly before the war ended. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Richard Bong has received more than 1,563,537 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Richard Bong is the 1,489th most popular military personnel (down from 1,312th in 2019), the 6,291st most popular biography from United States (down from 5,686th in 2019) and the 107th most popular American Military Personnel.

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  • 19

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  • 3.35

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Richard Bong ranks 1,489 out of 1,468. Before him are Guy Simonds, Gaston Billotte, John Bell Hood, Dragan Vasiljković, Gérard Leman, and Billy Bishop. After him are Billy Mitchell, Frederick Browning, Hyman G. Rickover, Richmond K. Turner, Leo Phokas the Younger, and Frederic Thesiger, 2nd Baron Chelmsford.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1920, Richard Bong ranks 279. Before him are Raisa Aronova, Rudolf Kárpáti, Alberto Crespo, Anselmo Duarte, Vincentas Sladkevičius, and Mustafa Khalil. After him are Jens Bjørneboe, Lea Padovani, Helen Thomas, Kenneth E. Iverson, Konstantin Beskov, and Natalya Kovshova. Among people deceased in 1945, Richard Bong ranks 251. Before him are Eugen Bolz, Alexander Fersman, Princess Maud, Countess of Southesk, Blind Willie Johnson, Milton S. Hershey, and Aleksandr Khanzhonkov. After him are Albert Tyler, José María Moncada, Adolf Brand, Jesús Bermúdez, Charles Fabry, and Florence Bascom.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Richard Bong ranks 6,291 out of 18,182. Before him are Ted Meredith (1891), Monte Hellman (1932), Peter Tork (1942), Albert Dekker (1905), Larry Nassar (1963), and Sarah Childress Polk (1803). After him are Randy Brecker (1945), William Cullen Bryant (1794), Judd Nelson (1959), Paul H. O'Neill (1935), William E. Thornton (1929), and Gary Gygax (1938).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In United States

Among military personnels born in United States, Richard Bong ranks 107. Before him are Smedley Butler (1881), Robert Anderson (1805), J. D. Tippit (1924), Mark Milley (1958), Frederick Townsend Ward (1831), and John Bell Hood (1831). After him are Richmond K. Turner (1885), Oliver Hazard Perry (1785), Henry Halleck (1815), Nathan Hale (1755), J. Lawton Collins (1896), and John Pope (1822).

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