He then returned to the United States Marine Corps as a major to command the Black Sheep Squadron in the Pacific Theater. Officially VMF-214, they flew the F4U Corsair, the same plane as my ...

Gregory “Pappy” Boyington earned fame as a Marine ace and leader of the Black Sheep Squadron, but the men who served beside ...

Gregory “Pappy” Boyington prepares to take off from Guadalcanal on May 1, 1943. Boyington flew for eight months with the Flying Tigers, a volunteer American group in China. Sgt. Edwin Hart U.S. Marine ...

BAA BAA BLACK SHEEP (384 pp.)—”Pappy” Boyingfon—Putnam ($4.50). “If this story were to have a moral, then I would say: ‘Just name a hero and I’ll prove he’s a bum.'” In this long, rambling ...

On Dec. 4, 1912 in Coeur d'Alene, a hero was born. He was a young man of modest means who had his first airplane ride at 8 years of age with the legendary Clyde Pangborn; a young man who worked ...

The Soaring by the Sea Foundation has unveiled a striking new look for its Curtiss P-40N Warhawk, "Currawong," transforming it into a flying tribute to legendary aviator Gregory "Pappy" Boyington. The ...

The U.S. Marine Corps recently celebrated its 250th Birthday of our Corps at Best Western Inn, Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, hosted by the Pappy Boyington Marine Corps League here. It was attended by upwards ...

A bent-winged, big-nosed Corsair fighter slid down the South Pacific sky to the Bougainville runway. A balding, disgruntled pilot hopped out. Marine Major Gregory Boyington had just shot down his 25th ...

Perhaps the students had never heard of the Ofuna crouch. The guards made the prisoner put his hands over his head, bend into a crouch, then stand on the balls of his feet. After five minutes it was ...

A Marine Corps aviator, he resigned his commission to join the American Volunteer Group, flying the P-40 Warhawk under Claire Lee Chennault out of Burma and China with the Flying Tigers in 1941 and ...