Summary Information

Title: Richard I. Bong Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1941-1986 (bulk 1941-1945)

Creator:

• Bong, Richard I.

Call Number: Wis Mss RH; Micro 1152; VBA 938; VBA 939; VHB 572

Quantity: 0.2 c.f. (1 archives box), 2 reels of microfilm (35 mm), and 3 videorecordings

Repository:

Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

Abstract:

Papers, mainly 1941-1945, of Richard I. Bong, a World War II hero from Poplar, Wisconsin, who was noted as America's World War II “Ace of Aces.” Included are microfilmed awards and certificates, flight records and logs, income tax returns, photographs of his fatal plane crash, special orders and combat reports, and other official military records; microfilmed clippings scrapbooks documenting his career and various memorial projects; original wartime letters written to his family; and several World War II newsreels, home movie clips, and televised biographies concerning his life and career.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-wis000rh

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