Richard "Dick" Ira Bong was for sure a outstanding pilot. But - his 45 kills aren't that impressive to Europeans where we had pilots that shot down 300 and more enemy planes. I am aware that the American pilots did not had the chance to reach such omnipotent numbers due to the fact that they usually just had short times in combat compared to their German opponents. Their de facto performance was usually very good.
Anyway he didn't leave the world such great books about like Antoine de Saint-Exupéry did. You should read them before you start to stammer about "some french author". Great stuff!