Question: R. I. Bong Air Force Base was named after the famous aviator who was awared the Medal of Honor in which world war?
Context: Goodfellow Air Force Base is a nonflying United States Air Force base located in San Angelo, Texas.  As part of Air Education and Training Command (AETC), Goodfellow's main mission is cryptologic and intelligence training for the Air Force, Army, Coast Guard, Navy, and Marine Corps.  Military firefighters are also trained here as part of the 312th Training Squadron.  It is the home of the 17th Training Wing (17 TRW).  The base is named for World War I aviator First Lieutenant John J. Goodfellow, Jr. Richard Ira Bong (September 24, 1920 – August 6, 1945) was a United States Army Air Forces major and Medal of Honor recipient in World War II.  He was one of the most decorated American fighter pilots and the country's highest-scoring flying ace in the war, being credited with shooting down 40 Japanese aircraft.  All of his aerial victories were in the Lockheed P-38 Lightning fighter.  He died in California while testing a jet aircraft shortly before the Japanese surrendered and the war ended. Nevatim Israeli Air Force Base (Hebrew: בסיס נבטים‎ ‎ ) (IATA: VTM, ICAO: LLNV) , also Air Force Base 28, is an Israeli Air Force base located southeast of Be'er Sheva, near moshav Nevatim.  It was built as a rough runway in 1947 for the Sherut Avir, the air wing of the Haganah, and was named Malhata.  It was reopened in 1983 as a new modern airbase with two runways as the result of joint Israeli and US government funding as part of the IAF's redeployment out of its bases in the Sinai after it was returned to Egypt following the Camp David Accords.  Since 2003 the base has gradually received more squadrons of F-16s.  A third runway was built in the mid-2000s decade as part of a project to accommodate the transfer of military activities previously taking place at Ben Gurion Airport (Air Force Base 27) to Nevatim. A Double cantilever hangar is a type of hangar that was constructed by the United States Air Force during the Cold War.  Large hangers were constructed at Castle Air Force Base, Loring Air Force Base, Carswell Air Force Base, and Travis Air Force Base, while smaller hangars were constructed at March Air Force Base, Edwards Air Force Base, Hanscom Air Force Base, and Homestead Air Force Base. The Ent Air Force Base was an Air Force base located in the Knob Hill neighborhood of Colorado Springs, Colorado.  A tent city, established in 1943 to build the base, was initially commanded by Major General Uzal Girard Ent (1900-1948) for whom the base is named.  The base was opened in 1951.  From 1957 to 1963, the base was the site of North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), which moved to the Cheyenne Mountain Air Force Station.  The base became the Ent Annex to the Cheyenne Mountain facility in 1975.  The facility was closed in 1976 (becoming a Formerly Used Defense Sites).  The Ent Air Force Base site later became the location of the United States Olympic Training Center, which was completed July 1978. Richard I. Bong Air Force Base is an unfinished Air Force Base built during the late 1950s.  It was named after the famous aviator, Major Richard Ira Bong, of World War II fame. McConnell Air Force Base (IATA: IAB, ICAO: KIAB, FAA LID: IAB) is a United States Air Force base located four miles (6 km) southeast of the central business district of Wichita, a city in Sedgwick County, Kansas, United States.  The base was named in honor of Wichita brothers Fred and Thomas McConnell, both Air Force pilots and World War II veterans.  It is the home of Air Mobility Command's 22d Air Refueling Wing (22 ARW), Air Force Reserve Command's 931st Air Refueling Wing (931 ARW), and the Kansas Air National Guard's 184th Intelligence Wing (184 IW). Keesler Air Force Base (IATA: BIX, ICAO: KBIX, FAA LID: BIX) is a United States Air Force base located in Biloxi, a city in Harrison County, Mississippi, United States.  The base is named in honor of aviator 2d Lt Samuel Reeves Keesler, Jr., a Mississippi native killed in France during the First World War.  The base is home of Headquarters, Second Air Force (2 AF) and the 81st Training Wing (81 TW) of the Air Education and Training Command (AETC). Bakalar Air Force Base is a former U.S. Air Force base located 4.4 mi northeast of Columbus, Indiana.  During World War II, the base was known as Atterbury Air Field and Atterbury Army Air Base (named in memory of Brigadier General William Wallace Atterbury), but it was renamed Bakalar Air Force Base in 1954 in honor of First Lieutenant John Edmond Bakalar, USAAF.  Established in 1942, the airfield served as a training base for medium-range C-46 Commando and C-47 Skytrain troop carrier planes and glider pilots.  It also was used for training B-25 Mitchell and B-26 Marauder bomber crews.  Reactivated during the Cold War, it was used as an Air Force Reserve training base for troop carrier, tactical airlift, and special operations flying units.  The military base was closed in 1970.  The present-day facility operates as the Columbus, Indiana, municipal airport. Peterson Air Force Base is a U.S. Air Force Base that shares an airfield with the adjacent Colorado Springs Municipal Airport, also having the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) and United States Northern Command (USNORTHCOM) headquarters.  Developed as a World War II air support base for Camp Carson, the facility conducted Army Air Forces training and supported Cold War air defense centers at the nearby Ent Air Force Base, Chidlaw Building, and Cheyenne Mountain Complex.  The base has been the location of the Air Force Space Command headquarters since 1987 and has had NORAD/NORTHCOM command center operations since the 2006 Cheyenne Mountain Realignment placed the nearby Cheyenne Mountain Complex centers on standby.
Answer: World War II