Black Sheep Squadron

[MrBern]

Stumbled over this on youtube. Some nice footage of Pappy Boyington in the `70s as well as a B&W clip from the 50s.
enjoy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nKTRodbxcY

 

[dhermann1]

My brother got Pappy's autograph out at Oshkosh one year, on an article about him in the bound volume of 1945 Leatherneck Magazine my parents brought home from the war. Definitely a prize possession.

 

[p51]

I have a funny memory of this show from recent times.
Around 2000, they were showing a marathon of this series on TV and I had the day off from my active duty Army 'job' as it was a holiday but my wife didn't ge the day off from her civilian job.
Anyway, she comes home and reads me the riot act for sitting around watching "yet another WW2 show on TV," and demands I turn it over to something else (this kind of thing happened all the time in the beginning of the marriage, before she realized she was fighting an unwinable fight :eusa_doh: ). The moment I turn the TV off, a real corsair flies right over the duplex, on approach to the local avaition museum. Their Corsair never flew right over the house before and never did again in the time was still lived there. The funny thing was she recognized what kind of plane it was and that it was what I had been watching on TV. She just stood there with her jaw hanging open, not sure what to say. Finally, she mumbled, "Only you would have that happen at a moment like that." I didn't say a word and just stood there with a silly grin.

 

[H.Johnson]

The Black Sheep

I have an original copy of Boyington's book for sale if anyone is interested.

I'll throw a copy of the video in if I can find it...

 

[blacklagoon]

here is a site link about the black sheep squadron

http://www.acesofww2.com/Black_Sheep/Black_Sheep.htm


If you scroll down,there are a few more links.There is a picture of Magee of the black sheep squadron wearing his irvin jacket,in the original irvin jacket thread.It's the picture of the guy with the words Brunehilde and wet paint written beside him.