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Pappy Boyington and his Black Sheep

The Unauthorized History of the Pacific War

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Papi's PRW Time

Major Boington was awarded the Medal of Honor while in a Japanese POW camp. He had no idea that he was presumed dead until after he was released from prison or war camp and it becomes national news to the point where the Marine Corps starts dragging every black sheep they can find all across the country to welcome Pappy home. Once he gets released, he says with a stroke of his own pin and his own tongue, he claims two more kills on that final mission,. thereby giving him theoretically 28 kills and making him the Marine Corps highest scoring ace. Now truth be told, no one knows if he did indeed shoot down two more aircraft. The fact of the matter is, is that he's

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