Editing Richard Bong (section)

==Aerial victory credits==
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! colspan="4" style="background-color: #3399ff" | Chronicle of aerial victories<ref name="Bong & O'Connor 1985 p. 210-212">Bong & O'Connor 1985 p. 210-212</ref>
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! style="background-color: #3399ff" | Date<ref name="AF_AVC">{{Cite web|url=http://afhra.maxwell.af.mil/avc.asp|title=Aerial Victory Credits|publisher=Air Force Historical Research Agency|pages=(search on Name "begins with" "Bong", exclude those of BONGARTZ THEODORE R)|access-date=2012-06-06|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130216014149/http://afhra.maxwell.af.mil/avc.asp|archive-date=2013-02-16}}</ref>
! style="background-color: #3399ff" | # <ref name="AF_AVC" />
! style="background-color: #3399ff" | Location/Comment
! style="background-color: #3399ff" | Aircraft flown
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|December 27, 1942
|align="right" |2
|over Buna, 1 Val Dive Bomber & 1 Zero
|P-38F [[Lockheed P-38 Lightning|Lightning]], Lockheed
|-
|January 7, 1943
|align="right" |2
|[[Nakajima Ki-43|Nakajima Ki-43 "Oscars"]] over Lae
|P-38F
|-
|January 8, 1943
|align="right" |1
|over Lae Harbor, ace status
|P-38F
|-
|March 3, 1943
|align="right" |1
|[[A6M Zero|Mitsubishi A6M "Zero"]] during [[Battle of the Bismarck Sea]]
|P-38G-5
|-
|March 11, 1943
|align="right" |2
|"Zeroes"
|P-38G-5
|-
|March 29, 1943
|align="right" |1
|[[Reconnaissance plane]],<ref>Bong & O'Connor 1985, p. 210-212</ref> [[Mitsubishi Ki-46|Dinah Ki 46]]; promoted to 1st Lieutenant. Over [[Bismark Sea]]
|P-38G-5
|-
|April 14, 1943
|align="right" |1
|bomber, [[Mitsubishi G4M|Betty G4M]], over [[Milne Bay]]. Awarded [[Air Medal]].
|P-38G-5
|-
|June 12, 1943
|align="right" |1
|"Oscar" Ki-43,<ref name="Bong & O'Connor 1985 p. 210-212" /> over [[Bena Bena]]
|P-38G-5
|-
|July 26, 1943
|align="right" |4
|fighters, on escort over Lae; awarded DSC
|P-38G-5
|-
|July 28, 1943
|align="right" |1
|"Oscar", on escort over [[New Britain]].
|P-38G-5
|-
|September 6, 1943
|align="right" |0
|claimed two bombers, not confirmed; crash-landed at [[Mailinan]] airstrip
|P-38(?)
|-
|October 2, 1943
|align="right" |1
|[[Mitsubishi Ki-46|Mitsubishi Ki-46 "Dinah"]], over [[Gasmata]]
|P-38H
|-
|October 29, 1943
|align="right" |2
|"Zeros", over Japanese airfield at [[Rabaul]]
|P-38H
|-
|November 5, 1943
|align="right" |2
|"Zeros", over enemy airfield at Rabaul
|P-38H
|-
!colspan="4" |''December 1943 – January 1944: On leave in Wisconsin''
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!colspan="4" |''February 1944: assigned to Fifth Air Force Fighter Command HQ, but allowed to "free-lance".''
|-
|February 15, 1944
|align="right" |1
|[[Kawasaki Ki-61|Kawasaki Ki-61 "Tony"]] off [[Cape Hoskins]], New Britain
|P-38(?)
|-
|February 28, 1944
|align="right" |0
|destroyed a Japanese transport plane on the runway at [[Wewak]], New Guinea
|P-38(?)
|-
|March 3, 1944
|align="right" |2
|[[Mitsubishi Ki-21|Mitsubishi Ki-21 "Sally"]] bombers, over [[Tadji, Papua New Guinea|Tadji]], New Guinea
|P-38(?)
|-
|April 3, 1944
|align="right" |1
|fighter over [[Jayapura|Hollandia]], 25th credit
|P-38(?)
|-
|April 12, 1944
|align="right" |3
|surpassed [[Eddie Rickenbacker]]'s U.S. record of 26 kills
|P-38(?)
|-
!colspan="4" |''May–July 1944: on leave in U.S., made publicity tours''
|-
|October 10, 1944
|align="right" |2
|[[Nakajima J1N| Nakajima J1N "Irving"]] and "Oscar"
|P-38L-1
|-
|October 27, 1944
|align="right" |1
|"Oscar"
|P-38J
|-
|October 28, 1944
|align="right" |2
|"Oscars" off [[Leyte]]
|P-38L-1
|-
|November 10, 1944
|align="right" |1
|"Oscar" over [[Ormoc Bay]]
|P-38L-1
|-
|November 11, 1944
|align="right" |2
|Recommended for Medal of Honor.
|P-38L-1
|-
|December 7, 1944
|align="right" |2
|"Sally" and [[Nakajima Ki-44|Nakajima Ki-44 "Tojo"]], covering U.S. landings at [[Ormoc]]
|P-38L-1
|-
|December 15, 1944
|align="right" |1
|"Oscar"
|P-38L-1
|-
|December 17, 1944
|align="right" |1
|"Oscar" over [[Mindoro]].
|P38L-1
|}