Dear Mom So We Have a War (SIGNED Carl Bong)
Burgess Publishing, 1991. Hardcover. Hardcover. (SIGNED BY CARL BONG, younger brother of Dick Bong, on the front free endpaper). 573 pp. with appendix of flight records and log books, index. Fourth printing of the initial edition by Burgess (later reprinted by Motorbooks in 1995). Fine in dust jacket with edgewear and a chip top right corner of the front panel. The story of Major Richard I. Bong (1920-1945), a Wisconsin boy who, flying Lockheed P-38s for the U.S. Army Air Force during World War II, became America's top flying ace, credited with shooting down 40 Japanese planes over the South Pacific. Bong received the Medal of Honor in 1944. He died shortly before the war ended while test flying a P-80 Shooting Star in California. a significant part of the book is made up of letters Bong wrote home to his mother. Fine / good. Item #E31424
ISBN: 0808784137
Price: $50.00