Both men flew P-38 Lightnings in the Southwest Pacific, and each received the Medal of Honor in recognition of his courage and accomplishments.
The Pacific Theater of Operations produced these two high scoring aces in World War II; Major Richard Bong and Major Thomas McGuire Jr.
That’s either phrased really badly or an outright lie.
Major Richard Bong – 40 victories
Major Thomas McGuire Jr. – 38 victories
There were dozens of Aces with over 100 victories during WWII, all of them German. Including the number one, Erich Hartmann with 352 victories
It was worded wrong. That’ll teach me to cut and paste without really paying attention to anything other than sentence size and my SEO scores.
That was the Pacific theater only