ACE TALKS ON GUNNERY
9 a.m. WASHINGTON, May 12. Major Richard Bong; the Army Air Force ace, announced that he is through, with combat flying.- He will return to the South-west Pacific as an instructor after receiving training in aerial gunnery and teaching methods. Major Bong said he would have shot down 75 planes instead' 61 27 if he had known more about deflection shooting. . "I am not a good shot. I havfe hit them, either straight from behind or from straight ahead," he said. "A good deflection shot should get them from the beam. American fighter pilots need more practice in deflection shooting:" , '
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 112, 13 May 1944, Page 7
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104ACE TALKS ON GUNNERY Evening Post, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 112, 13 May 1944, Page 7
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