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Gregory "Pappy" Boyington (1912–1988), World War II US Marine Corps fighter ace and commander of VMF-214, the "Black Sheep Squadron" (basis for the 1970s TV series Baa Baa Black Sheep) John D. Bulkeley (1911–1996), US Navy Admiral, received for his actions in the Pacific Theater during WWII.
Gregory "Pappy" Boyington (December 4, 1912 – January 11, 1988) was an American combat pilot who was a United States Marine Corps fighter ace during World War II. He received the Medal of Honor and the Navy Cross .
There Major Gregory "Pappy" Boyington (Medal of Honor, Navy Cross) took command of the 27 pilots who became the original "Black Sheep" of VMF-214. Major Boyington had just returned from a year's tour in China as a member of the 1st American Volunteer Group , commonly called the Flying Tigers , where he was credited with downing multiple ...
Major Greg "Pappy" Boyington is the commanding officer of VMF-214, a Marine squadron of "misfit" fighter pilots based on the Solomon Islands campaign and Bougainville campaign from 1943 to 1945 during World War II.
He also portrayed private investigator Tom Lopaka in Hawaiian Eye (1959–1963) and World War II ace Pappy Boyington in Baa Baa Black Sheep (1976–1978) [later syndicated as Black Sheep Squadron]. In addition to acting, he was a singer and recorded several pop/rock songs in the late 1950s and early 1960s as Bob Conrad.
PHOTO: Police are on the scene of an incident at UPMC Memorial Hospital, Feb. 22, 2025, in York, Pa. (Harrison Jones/York Daily Record via USA Today Network via Imagn Images)
In his autobiography Baa Baa Black Sheep, U.S. Marine Corps ace pilot Gregory "Pappy" Boyington claims that the film briefly shows the small pit in which he and five other prisoners of war took cover during the Truk raid. Boyington had been captured by the Japanese and was being transported to a prison camp on the Truk islands when the raid began.
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