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Pappy Boyington and his Black Sheep

The Unauthorized History of the Pacific War

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The Corsair Wistling Death

The F4U Corsair was designed by Bureau of Aeronautics in 1938. It mounted the largest engine available at that time, 2000 horsepower Pratt and Whitney R-20. The Japanese called them whistling death, which is just bad to the bone. And so only the best pilots could really do well in it.

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