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	Pappy Boyington - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Boyington died of cancer on January 11, 1988 at the age of 75.
		Boyington apparently decided that the two pilots who flew top cover should not have shared in the bounty, though it was often the case that when a pilot was shot down victory credits were equally shared among all taking part in the raid.
		Boyington's total score recognized by the American Fighter Aces Association is 24: 2 with the AVG and 22 claimed with the Marine Corps.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pappy_Boyington (3144 words)

	HD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Colonel Gregory "Pappy" Boyington, Marine Corps Ace credited with the destruction of 28 Japanese aircraft, was awarded the Medal of Honor "for extraordinary heroism above and beyond the call of duty" while in command of a Marine Fighting Squadron in the Central Solomons Area from 12 September 1943 to 3 January 1944.
		Gregory Boyington was born in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, on 4 December 1912.
		Lieutenant Colonel Boyington was retired from the Marine Corps on 1 August 1947 and, because he was specially commended for the performance of duty in actual combat, was advanced to his final rank of colonel.
	hqinet001.hqmc.usmc.mil /HD/Historical/Whos_Who/Boyington_G.htm (1347 words)

	Pacific Storm
		Gregory Boyington was born on December 4, 1912, in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho.
		Boyington later recalled the family of the Generalissimo in his usual flamboyant style: “Chiang was a legalized bandit, stealing what was not nailed down while pretending to command the Chinese army fighting the Japs.
		Boyington returned to the USA in July 1942, caught an express train to Washington, D.C., and submitted a petition for reinstatement, in which he cited his previous agreement with Admiral Nimitz.
	pacificstorm.net /en/articles/boyington1.php (1616 words)

	Medal of Honor Recipients on Film: Gregory "Pappy" Boyington
		Boyington struck at the enemy with daring and courageous persistence, leading his squadron into combat with devastating results to Japanese shipping, shore installations, and aerial forces.
		Boyington led a formation of 24 fighters over Kahili on 17 October and, persistently circling the airdrome where 60 hostile aircraft were grounded, boldly challenged the Japanese to send up planes.
		Boyington scored 22 kills during this period (the number 26 in the citation being a slight error) to add to the 6 he scored as a Flying Tiger for a total of 28.
	www.voicenet.com /~lpadilla/boyington.html (883 words)

	Marine Corps Legacy Museum - * Colonel Gregory "Pappy" Boyington, USMC
		Colonel Boyington died on 11 January 1988 and was buried in Arlington National Cemetery.
		Boyington was the tactical commander of the flight and arrived over Rabaul at eight o'clock in the morning.
		Colonel Boyington was retired from the Marine Corps on 1 August 1947 and, because he was specially commended for the performance of duty in actual combat, he was advanced to his final rank.
	www.mclm.com /tohonor/gboyington.html (1302 words)

	Gregory "Pappy" Boyington (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Marine Colonel "Pappy" Boyington is the greatest living ace in the Vought F4U Corsair and winner of the Medal of Honor.
		Boyington completed flight training the following year and flew with the Marine Corps until August 1941 when he resigned his commission to join the American Volunteer Group (AVG) in China.
		The AVG disbanded in July 1942, and Boyington was soon reinstated as a major in the Marine Corps.
	www.au.af.mil /au/goe/eaglebios/85bios/boying85.htm (443 words)

	Gregory "Pappy" Boyington - Black Sheep Squadron C.O. USMC WWII
		Stories of Pappy Boyington are legion, many founded in fact, including how he led the legendary Black Sheep squadron, and how he served in China as a member of the American Volunteer Group, the famed Flying Tigers.
		Boyington claimed to have shot down six Japanese fighters, which would have made him one of the first American aces of the war.
		As the AVG paid for destroyed Japanes planes, on the ground or in the air, Boyington lobbied for his share of the Chiang Mai planes - 3.75, to be precise.
	www.acepilots.com /usmc_boyington.html (1951 words)

	Greg "Pappy" Boyington VMF 214 :: USMC VMF 214 Blacksheep Squadron CO from September 12 1943 to Jannuary 3 1944
		The life of Boyington is one that goes beyond anything you might expect even in the most imaginative fiction stories of the World War II aviation aces.
		Resolute in his efforts to inflict crippling damage on the enemy, Maj. Boyington led a formation of 24 fighters over Kahili on 17 October and, persistently circling the airdrome where 60 hostile aircraft were grounded, boldly challenged the Japanese to send up planes.
		Boyington allways chose to fly the oldest Corsair in the row.
	www.freewebs.com /blacksheepone (786 words)

	Greg Pappy Boyington: Black Sheep One
		Boyington dodged through the alleys and turned himself to the Shore Patrol, whose desk sergeant looked up at him and said: I don't know who you are or what you've been doing, but I do know one thing--you've got to be a marine.
		Boyington himself claimed only three trysts with the executive officer's wife (I read his account in a letter he wrote to the Marine Corps historian, who of course did not use the information: Boyington supposedly scaled the outside wall of Hostel Number One with a bottle of whiskey under his arm).
		Boyington got a job in the prison kitchen and actually gained weight while others were shrinking to skeletons.
	www.warbirdforum.com /blackone.htm (852 words)

	Pappy Boyington Medal of Honor winner and commander of the Black Sheep squadron
		The constant stress of the tropical climate and combat took its toll however, and suffering from exhaustion and skin disease Boyington flew his last combat mission on 3 January 1944 during a mission in which he and his wingman, George Ashmun, attacked a flight of 10 Japanese Zero's.
		Boyington managed to down another zero trying to defend his wingman but Ashmun crashed and "Pappy" bailed out of his burning F4U with just inches to spare.
		Boyington was rediscovered and in a few days on his way back to the states.
	usfighter.tripod.com /boyingto.htm (1024 words)

	Major Gregory "Pappy Boyington", Marine Corps ACE
		In 1943 Boyington was ordered to form a squadron from available men and planes to fly Corsairs.
		Boyington, always a ladies man, continually mixed up with divorces and marriages, frequently drunk, always plagued with unpaid debts, became a PR liability to the Marine Corps.
		It ran for three years, however by portraying Boyington as a hero and the other pilots a bunch of misfits destroyed the friendship between him and many of the squadron veterans.
	www.b-29s-over-korea.com /pappyboyington/boyington.html (1017 words)

	Classic TV Shows - Baa Baa Black Sheep
		While it is true that the real Boyington was a hard drinking, hard fighting renegade, some of the members of the real Squadron took exception to their TV portrayal as deadbeats.
		Boyington served in China as a member of the American Volunteer Group, the famed Flying Tigers.
		Gregory Boyington was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor.
	www.fiftiesweb.com /tv/black-sheep.htm (571 words)

	Our Back Pages: "Pappy" Boyington
		As its leader, Boyington was a flamboyant commander, a darling of war reporters and a heavy drinker.
		Boyington was tired and at times shouldn't have gone up, but he did.
		Boyington died on Jan. 11, 1988, and is buried in Arlington National Cemetery.
	www.washington.edu /alumni/columns/dec98/back_pages1298.html (1143 words)

	Gregory 'Pappy' Boyington
		Boyington won the Congressional Medal of Honor in World War II, when as a Marine pilot he was credited with downing 28 Japanese aircraft.
		In January 1944 Boyington was shot down and captured by the Japanese and spent the rest of the war as a prisoner.
		Gregory 'Pappy' Boyington - Aviator/World War II Figure, born 4 December 1912, The model for TV's Baa Baa Black Sheep
	www.infoplease.com /biography/var/pappyboyington.html (151 words)

	Defending Colonel Gregory "Pappy" Boyington by Our Readers -- Capitalism Magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		According to the University of Washington student government, university alumnus Gregory "Pappy" Boyington is not a person university students should strive to emulate and he should not be honored with a memorial on campus because as a Marine Corps officer, he was a "rich white man" who killed the enemies he fought.
		A maverick leader, Boyington assembled one of the most effective air wings in the Pacific theater of battle and was personally responsible for twenty-eight aerial victories over Japanese fighters.
		Worse, these curses against Boyington's name come at a time when a new generation of Americans are locked in a life-and-death struggle with an enemy no less as tyrannical than the one Boyington had to face.
	www.capmag.com /article.asp?ID=4577 (659 words)

	Greg 'Pappy' Boyington in the AVG Flying Tigers
		In fact, Boyington seems to have been credited with only 1.5 planes destroyed on the ground at Chiang Mai, when Chennault or someone else decided that the credit should be shared equally among all 10 pilots who took part in that unfortunate raid, in which Jack Newkirk was killed and Mac McGarry taken prisoner.
		Boyington did not identify his recruiter, except to say that he was a retired captain and a veteran of the Lafayette Escadrille.
		Greg Boyington was one of three navy and marine aviators hired with the rank of flight leader, paying $675 a month and equivalent to captain.
	www.warbirdforum.com /gregboy.htm (1407 words)

	Wesleypedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The University of Washington’s student senate rejected a memorial for alumnus Gregory “Pappy” Boyington of “Black Sheep Squadron” fame amid concerns a military hero who shot down enemy planes was not the right kind of person to represent the school.
		Commenting on the decision, a blogger who says he met Boyington on numerous occasions at a museum and air show over the years noted the famous flyer “was no rich boy,” having grown up in a struggling family in which he was forced to work hard to make it through school.
		Boyington wrote a book in 1958 that reached the best-seller list, “Baa Baa, Black Sheep.”; In 1976, he sold rights to Universal, which aired a TV series for two seasons of the same name.
	wjagoe.blog.usf.edu (8910 words)

	Amazon.ca: Baa Baa Black Sheep: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Boyington is brutally candid about his own alcoholism in this book, plus he gives a lot more credit to Naval fliers saving his butt on at least one occaision than the "branch-o-centric" version of him as played by Conrad ever would have.
		This is the story of their most famous pilot, Pappy Boyington, beginning with his stint with the Flying Tigers in China and ending with his capture by the Japanese in the latter stages of World War II.
		Boyington's prose is prosaic to say the least, however at least it seems to be his own words, unpolished by the editor or ghostwriter.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0553263501 (928 words)

	Black Sheep Squadron and Pappy Boyington Books
		Pappy Boyington and his fellow Black Sheep set a blistering pace of aeial victories against the cream of the enemy' air forces, the fearsome Zero pilots of the Imperial Japanese Navy.
		Althought the show was highly fictionalized, Boyington was accurately portrayed as a nonconforming squadron commander — the number on fl sheep in the Marines.
		The real men of the Pappy Boyington's squadron tell their story of the World War II days, follows the men through their post-war years, and discusses their reaction to the TV series that was not-quite based on their lives.
	www.jodavidsmeyer.com /combat/bookstore/blacksheep.html (949 words)

	BookPage Nonfiction Review: Black Sheep One (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Gregory Boyington, otherwise known as "Pappy," was a media darling before there was such a term.
		Raised by an alcoholic mother and her common-law husband, Boyington managed to overcome the obstacles of his home life by entering the military, which would ultimately prove to be his salvation as well as his damnation.
		His prose style is clear and he dispassionately recounts the events of Boyington's career without condemning his excesses or extolling his virtues.
	www.bookpage.com /0012bp/nonfiction/black_sheep_one.html (289 words)

	Naval Aviation Resource Group/Marine Legends - Major Gregory "Pappy" Boyington (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Boyington was shot down on January 3, 1944, captured and subsequently made a POW for the duration.
		What has come to light recently is that Boyington had given #86 the temporary name of "Lucybelle" not "Lulubelle"as it has been accepted.
		Boyington later gave this false information, regarding "Lulubelle", himself as he refused to acknowledge a certain "Lucy"...
	www.warbirdsresourcegroup.org /NARG/boyington.html (187 words)

	Pappy Boyington's Corsair
		By the summer of 1943, most of the Marine fighting squadrons had transitioned to the F4U-1, the first operational model, fitted with a distinctive "birdcage" canopy, as shown in the detail of a plane flown by Ed Olander (number 576).
		Boyington's squadron, VMF-214, switched over to Corsairs before they started their September 1943 combat tour.
		The author presents Boyington 'warts and all', but a compelling and appealing sense of the great Marine ace comes through.
	www.acepilots.com /usmc_boyington3.html (1596 words)

	Amazon.com: Black Sheep One: The Life of Gregory "Pappy" Boyington: Books: Bruce Gamble (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		While Boyington may have seemed a larger-than-life war hero (which in many ways he was) he was an ordinary man with his own demons.
		Boyington was way ahead of his time in the area of air combat tactics.
		Boyington's tactics were unconventional, in the sense he never employed the same tactics for long.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0891417168?v=glance (2415 words)

	WorldNetDaily: Students reject honor to 'Baa Baa Black Sheep' hero (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Student senator Jill Edwards, according to minutes of the student government's meeting last week, said she "didn't believe a member of the Marine Corps was an example of the sort of person UW wanted to produce."
		The resolution points out Boyington, a student at the UW from 1930-34, served as a combat pilot in the 1st Squadron, American Volunteer Group – the "Flying Tigers of China" – and later as a Marine Corps combat pilot in charge of Marine Fighting Squadron 214, "The Black Sheep Squadron."
		Boyington wrote a book in 1958 that reached the best-seller list, "Baa Baa, Black Sheep." In 1976, he sold rights to Universal, which aired a TV series for two seasons of the same name.
	www.worldnetdaily.com /news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=48808 (625 words)

	Amazon.com: Baa Baa Black Sheep: Books: Gregory Pappy Boyington (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Boyington drives home the excitement and horror of his wartime experiences with great intensity, making this book a real thriller.
		Despite Boyington's endless flaws and rough edges (which he never ceases to remind you of), he comes across as a character to admire and to identify with--even if you often want to smack him a good one.
		There is no doubt that Pappy Boyington was a man who really had "been there and done that." He was a Flying Tiger and an ace before WWII even began, recipient of the Medal of Honor, and a former Japanese "special captive".
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0553263501?v=glance (2140 words)

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		Gregory 'Pappy' Boyington World War II Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient
		F4U-1A white 86 Lulubelle/BuNo 18086 of Maj Gregory Boyington, CO of VMF-214, Vella Lavella, December 1943
		He spent a year and a half as a Japanese POW, was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor, and was recognized as the Marine Corps top ace.
	www.semperfidelisnoah.com /Boyington.htm (194 words)

	Black Sheep One: The Life of Gregory “Pappy” Boyington (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		His alcoholic father—who, he would later discover, was really his stepfather—moved from job to job because of his drinking, causing constant money woes for the family.
		Despite these problems, Gregory managed to do well in high school and then entered the University of Washington to study engineering.
		After a deployment on the famed aircraft carrier Yorktown, Boyington was barely promoted to first lieutenant because of his mounting personal problems and sent back to Pensacola, Florida, to be an instructor pilot.
	www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil /airchronicles/bookrev/gamble.html (1248 words)

	Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 00062357
		Black Sheep One is the first biography of legendary warrior and World War II hero Gregory Boyington.
		Led by Medal of Honor winner Boyington, the legendary Black Sheep set a blistering pace of aerial victories against the enemy.
		Blessed with inveterate luck, the stubbornly independent Boyington lived a life that went beyond what even the most imaginative might expect.
	www.loc.gov /catdir/description/random0413/00062357.html (250 words)

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