Nico Tippett with John Gidley, left, executive director of the Richard I. Bong Veterans Historical Center in Superior and one of Richard Bong’s nephews, Keith Fechtelkotter. (Contributed photograph)
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‘I always wanted to be a pilot’
MHLT student’s project about Wisconsin native and World War Two ace Richard Bong gets noticed
It was in the northern Wisconsin village of Poplar in Douglas County that Richard Ira “Dick” Bong was born on Sept. 24, 1920. He joined the U.S. Army Air Corps in May of 1941 and eventually was sent to the Pacific theater of operations.
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