LIVERPUTTY

I'm thankful for the pilgrims for hacking out an existence in the great American wilderness and gaining a toe-hold for freedom and indiv...

The planes in question are the rocket powered Bell X-1 and the Boeing B-29 Superfortress. I meant to post this on October 13th, which would...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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 - ...

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 ...

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