This is an I-Heart podcast.

What I told people, I was making a podcast about Benghazi.

Nine times out of ten, they called me a masochist, rolled their eyes, or just asked, why?

Benghazi, the truth became a web of lies.

From prologue projects and Pushkin Industries, this is Fiasco, Benghazi.

What difference at this point does it make?

Listen to Fiasco, Benghazi, on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

...or wherever you get your podcasts. And we continue with our American stories.

Up next comes a man who's simply known as the History Guy.

His videos are watched by hundreds of thousands of people of all ages

over on YouTube. The History Guy is also heard here regularly at our American Stories. Richard

Bong was a hero in an era of heroes. Here's the History Guy with the story.

It has often been said that war is the most dramatic of human endeavors.

And of the millions of people who served throughout the globe in the Second World War,

there are countless stories of those who went above and beyond to serve their country,

to protect their comrades, and to do their part to try to bring an end to the most destructive

war in human history.

And among those stories is the story of Richard Ira Bong, a U.S. Army fighter pilot in the Pacific

who was so successful that he became America's ace of aces.

Richard Ira Bong was born September 24th, 1920, in Superior, Wisconsin.

The oldest of nine children born to Carl Bong, a Swedish immigrant and American Dorr Bryce.

He had an interest in planes from a young age and saw air mail planes fly over the farm when President Calvin Coolidge was at his summer White House in Superior.

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