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Back in the saddle again
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Central TX west of Houston
Posts: 56,711
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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera
Before the fictional Top Gun movie about a wild maverick pilot there was the real rebel a WWII hero known as the, "Ace of Aces" Dick Bong.
Perhaps no American fighter pilot in all of World War II was as deadly as Major Dick Bong. In over 200 missions, this American daredevil took down a whopping 40 enemy planes on his way to earning the Medal of Honor — and he did it in his one-of-a-kind brazen style.
This rebellious rule-breaker was repeatedly grounded for stunts like doing loops around the Golden Gate Bridge and flying so low over houses that he'd blow people's laundry right off their clotheslines. But in the end, Bong's superiors always had to recall him to service because he was just too good to keep on the ground.
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When your name is Dick Bong, I think you've gotta be a badass.
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'08 Boxster RS60 Spyder #0099/1960
- never named a car before, but this is Charlotte.
'88 targa  SOLD 2004 - gone but not forgotten
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