Question: The R.I. Bong Air Force base was named after an aviator who earned what award in World War II?

Context articles: List of United States Air Force squadrons
Goodfellow Air Force Base
R.I. Bong Air Force Base
Richard Bong
Schilling Air Force Base
McConnell Air Force Base
Peterson Air Force Base
Keesler Air Force Base
Bergstrom Air Force Base
Bakalar Air Force Base

This is a list of United States Air Force squadrons.
 It covers both the independent United States Air Force (USAF) and its period as a branch of the US Army culminating as the Army Air Forces up to 1947.
 All numbered USAF squadrons are assigned numbers from 1 to 999, with the block 101 to 300 being reserved for the Air National Guard.
 Generally speaking the numbers in the 900 block are post World War II units, they may however be consolidated units with lineage and heraldry dating back to World War II or even early as part of the Air Service.
 The only official source of lineage information is provided by the Air Force Historical Research Agency at Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama.
 The only official sources of heraldry information are the AFHRA and the Institute of Heraldry, Fort Belvoir, Virginia.
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 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.
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.
Schilling Air Force Base is a former United States Air Force Base located three nautical miles (6 km) southwest of the central business district of Salina, Kansas, United States.
 It was also known as Smoky Hill Air Force Base.
 During World War II, "Smoky Hill Army Air Field" (AAF) was in the first group United States Army Air Forces bases for training on the B-29 Superfortress aircraft in the summer of 1943.
 Along with Walker Army Airfield near Victoria, Pratt Army Airfield and Great Bend Army Airfield the initial cadre of the 58th Bombardment Wing was formed.
 The 58th Bomb Wing was the first B-29 combat wing of World War II and engaged in the first long-range strategic bombardment of the Japanese Home Islands beginning in March 1944 from bases in India.
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).
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.
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).
Bergstrom Air Force Base (1942–1993) was a United States Air Force base located seven miles (11 km) southeast of downtown Austin, Texas.
 It was activated during World War II as a troop carrier training airfield, and was a front-line Strategic Air Command (SAC) base during the Cold War.
 In its later years, it was transferred to the Tactical Air Command (TAC) and became a major base for the U.S. Air Force's RF-4C reconnaissance fighter fleet.
 At the time of its closure, it was assigned to the Air Combat Command (ACC).
 The airfield was then converted for civilian use, with Austin-Bergstrom International Airport beginning passenger flights in 1999.
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.