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Richard "Dick" Ira Bong (September 24, 1920 – August 6, 1945) was a United States Army Air Forces major and Medal of Honor recipient in World War II. He was one of the most decorated American fighter pilots and the country's top flying ace in the war, credited with shooting down 40 Japanese aircraft, all with the Lockheed P-38 Lightning .
A Wisconsin museum is partnering with a historical preservation group in a search for the wreckage of World War II ace Richard Bong's plane in the South Pacific. The Richard I. Bong Veterans ...
Designated NHL. October 9, 1960 [3] Point State Park (locally known as The Point) is a Pennsylvania state park which is located on 36 acres (150,000 m 2) in Downtown Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, USA, at the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers, forming the Ohio River. Built on land that was acquired via eminent ...
70000499 [1] Added to NRHP. November 10, 1970. The William Henry Harrison Tomb State Memorial is the final resting place of William Henry Harrison, ninth President of the United States, his wife Anna Harrison, and his son John Scott Harrison (father of the twenty-third President, Benjamin Harrison). It is located on Brower Road approximately ...
The Fort Pitt Block House (sometimes called Bouquet's Blockhouse [6] or Bouquet's Redoubt [7]) is a historic building in Point State Park in the city of Pittsburgh.It was constructed in 1764 as a redoubt of Fort Pitt, making it the oldest extant structure in Western Pennsylvania, [8] as well as the "oldest authenticated structure west of the Allegheny Mountains".
476,000 [1] Director. Jason Brown. Nearest parking. On site (paid) and street. Website. carnegiesciencecenter.org. The Carnegie Science Center, soon to be The Daniel G. and Carole L. Kamin Science Center, [2] is one of the four Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It is located in the Chateau [3] neighborhood.
The National Cemetery of the Alleghenies covers 292 acres (118 ha) in Cecil Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania approximately 20 miles (30 km) southwest of Pittsburgh. The cemetery was dedicated on October 9, 2005 by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs ' National Cemetery Administration and is one of the newest cemeteries in ...
Coordinates: 40.44353°N 79.94954°W. The Carnegie International is a North American exhibition of contemporary art from around the globe. [1][2][3][4][5][6] It was first organized at the behest of industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie on November 5, 1896, in Pittsburgh. Carnegie established the International to educate and inspire ...