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161 - Marine Aces of the South Pacific

The WW2 Podcast

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The Medal of Honor Pilots

There is quite a few of these pilots received the medal of honor isn't there um and i didn't actually note quite how many doubt bracket i could see in my list at least at least four. Once they these acees received the medal, are they allowed to continue flying? The navy department which includes the marine corps did not uh did not like to have medal of other recipients shot down and killed and or become captured boington was one of ten marine aces who earned the medal of honour that's an interesting story he was his the navy navy slash marine corps public relations machine had a had a curious problem because they had two boings to one each of the two rep types of reputations

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