Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Pappy Boyington as a prisoner towards the end of the war

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Another, possibly the last, installment (pgs 289-290) from Baa Baa Black Sheep - though there are plenty of other excerpts worthy of postin...
Friday, September 19, 2008

Pappy Boyington and the sweet and charitable Obason

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Still more Boyington. There will be one or two more posts yet from his exceedingly impressive Baa Baa Black Sheep . For almost the last tw...
Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Pappy Boyington over the Pacific

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More Pappy from his book, Baa Baa Black Sheep (pages 131-137). This time he's in the Pacific with his newly formed (and unorthodox) squ...
Monday, August 25, 2008

Pappy Boyington escorting the Cheks

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Another excerpt from Pappy's Baa Baa Black Sheep - during his Flying Tiger days: As we scrambled into our P-40s, with their hideous sha...
Thursday, August 21, 2008

Jim Adams and Bill Tweedy - as told by Pappy Boyinton

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From Pappy Boyington's book Baa Baa Black Sheep . Before he formed the VMF-214 Black Sheep, Greg Boyington volunteered with the Flying T...
Wednesday, August 06, 2008

George McGovern as a B-24 pilot

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I just finished reading Stephen Ambrose's The Wild Blue about the 741st Squadron in the 455th Bomb Group of the 15th Air Force (whew - ...
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Friday, July 04, 2008

THE MIDWAY INTRO

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Earlier this spring my parents took a trip to San Diego and visited the USS Midway - now the most visited floating museum in the world. It ...

The Tip of the Sword: A Brief History of the USS Midway

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Like her name suggests, the USS Midway was born out of battle hardened experience and wartime ingenuity. There is something almost organic ...
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