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Who was Major Gregory Boyington?

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Anonymous

8y ago
Updated: 8/16/2019

Also known as Pappy Boyington, he lead a handfull of misfit pilots during the Pacific Theater operations during the second world war. This outfit were nicknamed the Black Sheep. Famous enough, that a tv series was creates around their exploits.

2nd Answer: The popular literature in Boyington's time created myths that were just not true. Boyington's Black Sheep squadron was composed of the same type of pilots that any other squadron would have had. The idea that they were misfits was totally invented by the entertainment industry, and is completely untrue. Also, his approximately 40 pilots were considerably more than a handful,

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8y ago

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