Hi!

So there is no trafic fatalities, the Bong recreation area near Poplar?,
Wisconsin, is a tribute to the local town hero and national World War Two hero
Richard Bong.  Richard Bond was a Major in the US Army Air Corps and piloted P-
38 lightenings to become the top American Ace of the war with 40
confrimed "kills".  He was tragically killed testing jets in early August 1945
just before the end of the war.

There is a display of a P-38 painted like Bong's famous "Marge", which had the
photo of his High school sweet heart reproduced and applied on the nose of the
aircraft.

If I am not mistaken there is a small museum opening there soon or perhaps it
already opened?

I hope I did not butcher the details to bad...

Greg Hansel

a University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and Milwaukee Public Museum

Anthropology and Museum Studies Student


Quoting Deb Fuller <[log in to unmask]>:

> The Safehouse!! It's a really cool pop-culture spy bar somewhere downtown
> near
> the convention center. (It's been a few years since I've been there and
> didn't
> catch the address.) Like all good spy safehouses, it's in an unmarked
> warehouse
> but you can usually tell what building it is by the line outside. :)
>
> And on the way from Milwaukee and Chicago is the Mars Cheese Castle and the
> Bong Recreation Area. If you go there, please let me know what these things
> are. I nearly ran off the road when I saw the signs but didn't have time to
> stop.
>
> Deb
>
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