Richard Bong - Legacy

Legacy

Richard Bong State Recreation Area on the site of what was to be Bong Air Force Base in Kenosha County, Wisconsin
Richard I. Bong Memorial Bridge along US Route 2 in the Twin Ports of Duluth, Minnesota and Superior, Wisconsin
Richard I. Bong Airport in Superior, Wisconsin
Bong Barracks of the Aviation Challenge program
Richard I. Bong Bridge in Townsville, Australia
Major Richard Ira Bong Squadron of the Arnold Air Society at the University of Wisconsin
Richard Bong Theatre in Misawa, Japan and the 613th Air and Space Operations Center, Thirteenth Air Force, Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii.
Bong avenues on the former site of the decommissioned Richards-Gebauer Air Force Base, on Lackland AFB in San Antonio, Texas, on Luke AFB in Glendale, Arizona, on Elmendorf AFB in Anchorage, Alaska, and on Kadena AFB in Okinawa, Japan.
Bong Terrace, Mount Holly Township, New Jersey (Mount View neighborhood, built 1956–1957).
Wisconsin Aviation Hall of Fame (1987).
Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe/A Centennial Celebration (Knopf, 1988)--a tribute collection of Marlowe stories, all but one written by authors other than Chandler--includes a story called "The Man Who Knew Dick Bong," by Robert Crais.

On September 24, 2002 the Richard I. Bong Veterans Historical Center (originally the Bong 'World War II Heritage Center') opened to the public in Superior, Wisconsin. Housed in a structure intended to resemble an aircraft hangar, it contains a museum, a film screening room, and a P-38 Lightning restored to resemble Bong's plane.