FOSTER FIELD    VICTORIA TEXAS USA    MAY 1944 Capt Atlee Manthos with legendary ace Maj Richard Ira Bong. Maj Bong was on temporary assignment to the Matagoria Bombing Range as gunnery instructor between stateside promotional tours. The P-38 in the background is one of two airframes painted to resemble the Major's combat aircraft for those events. These images are 2MB full-size copies of scans from the original slides.