U.S. ACE

Grey River Argus, 13 May 1944, Page 5

U.S. ACE

TURNS TO instruction.

(Rec. 10.50) WASHINGTON, Ma'v 12. Major Richard Bong, an Air Force ace, has announced that he is through with combat flying. He will return to the South-west Pacific as an in-

structor, after training in aerial gunnery and teaching methods. Major Bong said that he would have shot down seventy-five plaiaes, instead of twenty-seven, if he had known more about deflection shooting. He said: “I am not a good shot. I have hit them either straight from behind or from straight ahead. A gopd aeflection shot should get them from the beam. American fighter pilots need more practice in deflection shooting.” r