- Family history: His father, Dr. Peleg Benson Wing (1861-1932) divorced his mother Ida M. Porter on April 9, 1912 after 27 years of marriage; remarried to Anna McCormick (1879-1954) sometime prior to 1914. Grandfather: Lewis Melvin Wing (1828-1909) was married to Lucretia A. Foss (1836-1888). His middle name was derived from his paternal great-grandfather, Massachusettes-native Reuben Wing (1771-1862).
- After surviving a serious plane crash in 1935, he briefly produced a radio show for NBC's Blue Network (1936-1937).
- When the U.S. entered World War II, Wing headed a signal construction battalion in the Philippines. Among the survivors of the Bataan death march, he was one of 513 prisoners of the Cabanatuan prison camp freed by Army Rangers in the rescue mission later portrayed in "The Great Raid" (2005).
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