Newsreel: Major Boyington Is Found Alive (1945)
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- Newsreel footage - "Pappy" Boyington found alive in POW camp. Shows him greeting fellow soldiers; short interview at the end about his treatment by the Japanese.
August 29, 1945
I met him at a CAF air show in Harlingen, Texas in the 70’s. He was there at a reunion with other men who had flown in the Flying Tigers in China. I was a Civil Air Patrol Cadet and we were doing ‘guard duty’ while the CAF WWII aircraft were on display. He went out of his way to talk to us cadets and let me sit under his awning, to get out of the heat, where he was signing his autobiography that was for sale. I was a kid and didn’t have the money to pay for a book, but when It was time to leave that evening he gave me a book that he had signed, and it says:
To Herbert,
With the Black Sheep!
One’s Best,
Gregory Boyington
Great story! I was a CAP cadet also and used to guard WWII planes at air shows. It was a lot of fun and I met some interesting pilots.
I pray you have the book still? Do not ever sell it.
Wonderful story-thanks!
@@THE-HammerMan was just going to write the same thing... keep it forever.
That's awesome! 😎
Decent guy.
I feel so honored to have met Greg at an airshow in the early 80's. I talked with the man for about 10 minutes and didn't even know who he was at the time. I was a kid and thought Greg Boyington was Robert Conrad. lol About a dozen years later I was stationed at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, NC. 5 years later after discharge and returing home, I found a book on my desk written by Joe Foss, personally inscribed and autographed. Seems my dad had an honor while I was away.
Rest In Peace brothers, Semper fi!
Tough dude. Described being beaten with a ball bat as "mighty uncomfortable".
I just now am reading his Black Sheep memoir. It’s excellent.
As I recall he and Louis Zapperini (made famous by the book "Unbroken" were together for a while in that infamous Japanese prison. Honor. Respect. Remembrance.
I had the very wonderful privilege to met Louie Zapperini the year before he died. He was the most delightful, funny, heartwarming man!!!!!!
@@ptaylor4923 What a neat experience for you! What an incredible life he lived!
@@mikesnyder1788 The city i was living in had him for a speaking engagement because he was on their one city one book list. They had booked one of the little shotgun theaters at the multiplex and asked me to help with the event. The first thing I told them was, "You need the bigger theater." (Think Jaws, "We're going to need a bigger boat.") For once, someone listened to me and they booked the larger theater, which was immediately filled on the reservation list, so they asked his son if he could do it twice. Getting a yes, they booked the theater for immediately after the first event. It filled up. Many people never got in. Such a privilege. The city people just had not understood until that day.
@@ptaylor4923 Great story! And how wonderful that you selected the right venue for this most excellent speaker. Must have been one of your career highlights! Would have been for me! Regards...
@@mikesnyder1788 Heck, I was justice a disaster response volunteer helping out who recognized what a hero he was and cognizant of the number of people who loved and appreciated him.
I met Pappy at an air show in Bellingham, WA back in the early 80s. He signed his book and a print for me. The real treat was when one of the two F4U owners let Pappy take one up for a short flight.
What a hero. No wonder we have such a great nation, acknowledged or not, it's been created on the back's of men such as these!
The disgusting thing is that the University of Washington students (several years ago) vetoed a statue in his honor on the campus (he was a UW alumni) saying that people like marine officers who served their country don't deserve honor. Now, a statue in his honor is going up in Tacoma, WA.. but, what a bunch of disgusting punks who are so self righteous. They have no idea what Pappy did or suffered at the hands of the cruel Japanese when he was in their prison camps.
@@aze216
Get bent. Pull your MAGA hat wearing head out the Orange Shitstain's ass
Pappy and Curtis Lemay are my favorites🇺🇸
@@tommypetraglia4688 Fuck you, you cowardly commie!
@@ronaldrobertson2332 He got up on the wrong side of the bed that day & now sees how bad Senile Joe & Kamala are
The US Army had Murphy and the USMC had Boyington! Two of the greatest of The Greatest Generation! The debt this nation and the free world owes them can never be repaid!
Air Force has Richard Bong later America's highest-scoring ace.
Don't forget Chesty . . . 5 Navy Crosses, and 1 DSC.
Many years ago , I met a man named Chester . This man and many of us (it was a boarding home when I was a newlywed) would be watching TV. When the Black Sheep Squadron show would come on , Chester would say "I flew with them, see my plane" This was at the intro to the show and they were showing actual film of the Black Sheep Squadron flying. I tried a few years ago to look up the pilots names, but I never could find a Chester. That was back in the 70's a long time ago. I'm sure Chester has long since passed away.
Met him once. From my hometown but descended into the bottle after the war. He had a lot to forget
I met him and his son in the 1970's. His son was a Lt. Colonel in the USAF.
Dogsoldier ; A lot of our veterans reached out for the bottle or other substances to try to kill the demons they brought home.
I had Uncles, Navy and Army, that fought those demons up till their passing in the mid 1970's 1980's.
For those of us who have never been/seen in combat, we will never understand 100%, the mental trauma these veterans suffered.
God Bless our veterans, past, present and, future.
@@harrisonmantooth3647 In that generation men didnt go to shrinks and talk about their traumas much to the detriment of some who hit the bottle or their wives and kids.
@@qtig9490 That is so true. Also everyone of my relatives that served during WW 2 and Korea, experienced heavy battles, on the Seas, the ETO & PTO, had failed marriages. Some, more than one.
I thank God for our veterans and the sacrifices they and their families made for this country.
Dogsoldier 1950 ; In Coeur D'Alene Idaho, there's an airfield named in his honor. Everytime we go up there, I have the intention of going there to visit, see what all is there but, grandchildren and other obligations doesn't permit me the time. A visit is still on my bucket list.
My 8th cousin.What an Honor.
I think the F4U Corsair is the most beautiful fighter aircraft ever made.
WW2 sure had some beautiful fighters... the Corsair, sure - but also the Lightning, the Spitfire, and of course, the Mustang.
Yes the Corsair was badass.
I agree
Not the hero we asked for, but the hero we got.
A minute and a half before they show a Corsair. Geeze...
A true American Badass!
They just don't make them like that anymore.
I read his book. I wish I could have met him.
I had the honor of doing about an hour long interview with him in his living room when he lived in Fresno with his wife. Sad to say that marriage did not last. Only a handful of years later he succumbed to cancer. He was a hell of man despite his problems. God rest his soul.
@@paulsullivan6392 Considering what he went through in the Japanese Prison camp, I'm surprised anyone could lead any kind of normal life. He was an amazing man. I used to be a huge fan of the TV show Baa Baa Black Sheep. Boyington's book was far, far better than the TV show. Have you ever read it?
@@buisyman great point, I met "pappy" at the Reno Air Races in 1987, he was selling books out of his motor home, family assisting him. Very frail, but managed to autograph my copy " Carl- best wishes Pappy Boyington, (for my dad) he managed to return my salute then back inside his motor home. He passed away a few months later. Never another like him. RIP Pappy
"Mr. Can I shake your hand?" I said to pappy when I was 10 years old and met him at Glenview Naval Air Station.
He switched his Kool cigarette from one hand to the other and swung his free hand around to meet mine.
I remember his eyes were glassy but his grip was firm, he looked me directly in the eye and after a second said "Thanks Kid"... I will never forget that handshake!
A true American hero and a real badass Semper Fi Pappy
Was lucky enough to meet him late in his life as a fellow Marine, he had the right stuff indeed.
I actually read Pappy Boyington's biography. I was quite surprised to learn after all he went through, he harbored no ill feelings towards the Japanese. He said that any Japanese who spoke any English never beat him or did anything bad to him. He also wrote all the civilians he met while he was a POW never gave him a problem. Of course, there were a few Japanese military men who weren't very nice.
I read his autobiography as well. Impressive that with all he went through that he could still see the difference between the 'average' Japanese and the 'radical' Japanese. I'm not sure if I could have been that open minded. I guess that is just one more thing that rates him as a 'great man', and not just as a 'great warrior'.
@@tomjustis7237 my thoughts exactly!
Go find thebook book Black Sheep by Bruce Gamble, his book is more real to life than BOYINGTONS,
@@garypic4083 I read that book many years ago but unfortunately I remember little what he had written. Must find that book again!
He was smart too. I heard that he eventually got himself kitchen duty--that kept him from starving or dying of disease.
He was given free beer by the Japanese because he was regarded as a true warrior.
"Boyington welcomed in Oakland, California" ...that might be Alameda NAS. Is an island. Today one of Oakland's finest neighborhoods. The old Naval Air Station was located on the northern portion of the island overlooking Oakland's seaport, the long Bay Bridge and San Francisco on the background, across the bay.
It was from there where the USS Hornet aircraft carrier sailed out in mid 1942 for the first American attack on Japanese soil by launching Jimmy Doollittle's B-25 twin engine bombers from its deck (its replacement, USS Hornet 2, is permanently anchored there as a Naval Air Museum). Today, the base's old runways still there. Decomisioned but they been used throughout the years for many activities, among them for the film industry.
Many TV commercials were shot there, like the Tesla comercials and its electric cars running through a 'wide endless highway'. Most were shot there over the wide open tarmac which is very practical for that purpose. The highway scenes for the movie 'The Matrix Reloaded' in 2003, were also shot there; as well as the rocket engine trials from newly formed aerospace company Astra Space which is based nearby in one of the old jet engine test facility buildings from the old Alameda Naval Air Station.
*B-25s. B-24s were 4 engine jobs.
@@HootOwl513 indeed, the Mitchell 😉
In 1983 I was on the Enterprise after a nine month west pac cruise we ran aground 500 yards off the Alameda pier and were stuck there for like 8 hours lol
@@Retr0racin Did the Skipper get disciplined?
@@HootOwl513 lol actually Zulu from star trek was honorary skipper on the way into the bay, it was the ports fault, there had been lots of rain and flooding that year and silt had built up in front of the pier for the carriers.
All - a number of people posting have commented on Boyington’s “plump” face and apparent lack of physical stress. Be advised that you (may) be witnessing a phenomenon of POW’s that have been repatriated-the body bounces back quickly.
This doesn’t mean the person under brutal captivity was specially treated or exceptional...if you’re starving, malnourished and abused, the human body is well capable to readjust quickly. The mind/spirit are wholly different matters...don’t be fooled by full cheeks or smiles.
When this film was shot, be aware it could have been many, many days past Boyington’s repatriation. 10, 12, 14 days of steady nutrition, water and hygiene will ‘reconstitute’ a human.
Well said Fact ! ( Timely Too )🤠
True, however, in Boyington's case, he was forced to work in the main kitchen in the camp where he was helped by Japanese who were slave labor. They slipped him food, plus he stole food. He was the only POW of the Japanese who gained weight in captivity. As an aside, the kitchen was the place he was able to get saki after more than a year of sobriety, rekindling his alcoholism.
Go read the book Titled Black Sheep by Bruce Gamble. It will change your mind about Boyington
@@garypic4083 It's 'Baa Baa Black Sheep.'
@@garypic4083 Read that book several times. Certainly doesn't portray Pappy well, but I always felt that Gamble tried hard to make him look bad.
This was a real Marine. More like him to lead them. He got the job done.
I've read his autobiography, which glosses over a lot of the darker elements of his life. I've also read other accounts of him which did not. He was a brave and excellent flyer, and very pugnacious and aggressive, but we don't need more like him. We need men like Joe Foss. He was everything Boyington was and everything Boyington was not. And I suspect even Pappy would agree with my conclusion. I'll leave it at that.
THANKS GREG , WHEREVER YOU ARE ...
I was really a fan of the show in the seventies and I bought his book. I’m sure it was a re-release because of the show. He told of how tough the prison camp was. They were really starving. He seized the chance to steal a fish that was meant for the guards. He knew it would mean a severe beating. He said it was extremely hot and Japanese came up to him. He had to hold the fish by the tail and not swallow it to prevent it from burning his stomach! That’s tough to hold something that hot in your mouth and pretend nothing is going on. He had a serious alcohol problem when he got home. I’m amazed they all didn’t!
from his memoir he never got scores for his flying tigers time i believe.
I think your right as they were basically mercinairies fighting for Chang Kie Check(spelling-sorry). They did it for the $100 every plane shot down.
@@daveb.4268 ya good money in those days
He was asked by the US Government to “volunteer” for the Flying Tigers and signed a secret contract with the US Government that said he would be paid for each Japanese plane shot down and that if a war came they would be restored to their rank with no time in service lost. The government never kept their part of the deal and he was very bitter about that. It wasn’t the money, it was that they treated the men that they recruited as if they had been mercenaries instead of doing what they’d been asked to do. They WERE NOT MERCENARIES. Later the military owned up to the fact that they’d been promised to have no time in service lost, but only because Boyington and other former Flying Tigers had become national heroes and got embarrassed for screwing them over. SOS.
@@daveb.4268 They were not mercenaries. You are in error. They were asked by the US Government to go to China and fly for the AVG. They signed contracts that promised that they would not lose any time in service and would be restored to their rank when their service with the AVG ended. The military tried to renig on the contract and treated them like crap when they brought them back. Boyington was more bitter about that than anything the Japanese did while he was a prisoner of war. He finally got his time in service restored but was disgusted with how the military treated the AVG flyers after they had done what was asked of them. SOS.
I would suggest to anyone not to have any solid opinion of Pappy Boyington until you research and read Fred Turnbull’s recounting of being a POW with Boyington. Some very interesting information. Turnbull was an F-6 Hellcat pilot and retired as a captain in the Navy.
Yeah, the recounted story paints Boyington as damn near a traitor. Turnbull allegedly drinking a toast to Boyington's death. It does explain the relatively healthy features he exhibits in that video as well.
Pappy Boyington - Great American of the Greatest Generation, a man who valued liberty and answered the call to armed combat to defend our Nation. This is a part of American history and identity.
respect to Marine Corps
Oorah....
There aren't any soldiers in the Marines, that would be the Army. Semper Fi!
Civilians don't have a clue. My own sister after my father and my older brother had both been ncos without a college degree told me that I couldn't be an NCO after I told her I just made NCO status because I did not have a college degree 🤣🤣. Just to prove her wrong the next time I went home on leave I wore my dress uniform with my staff sergeant chevrons sewn on it 👍👍
@@nonamegame9857 Not really on point, Doug.
@@mrschuyler I was just trying to point out the absurdity of what some civilians Even in our own families say. Please don't get me wrong because I love my brother and sister to no end may they both rest in peace 🙏🙏🙏
GOD,COUNTRY & CORP !!! SEMPER FI !!
@@marksweeney2698 Corps, not corp. And semper fi.
Heaven is for Heroes.
Dick O'Kane one of the most successful sub commanders (USS Tang) was at the same camp.
Yeah...I'm that guy
What??
1:46) It's the Medal Of Honor.
Like it was said in the TV series, they were a bunch of college boys.
The series was a load of bullshit
@@robertyoung3992 But sure was awfully entertaining.
@@robertyoung3992 But it made Pappy Boyington a household name, giving him well deserved immortality.
"Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo" by James Dolittle, was a good book about the fighter pilots who fought over Japan.
Great book, however, Captain Ted Lawson lived it and wrote the book.
B-25's were medium bombers.
I read that book, i believe that half of those pilots did not survive.
Sophie, they were bomber pilots and crews flying B-25 bombers launched from USS Hornet! Not fighter pilots in that book.
@@insideoutsideupsidedown2218 Well more than half of Doolittle's Raiders survived the raid.
greg boyington, major at this time..and after a great colonel..a legend..hommage from France
"We are poor little lambs, who have lost our way. Baa, Baa, Baaaaa". The legendary VMA-214. Semper Fi!
My air medals don't compare to Pappys. He was one of the best.
He puts current "Twitter" Marines to shame!!!
Now it`s the woke corps now. Pretty sad.
General Berger's smoking out any traces of the Confederacy on USMC bases AND is promoting "female combat commanders" as his stated two priorities (as stated in media in early '20). That's the kind of prioritization we need to defend our sagging, borderless nation.
Pappy does claim to have invented the corsair's ejection seat!
Drink and fly! Forever real hero
He was a prisoner on Truk Atoll during the strike by US carriers
@Denny Jay: I spent a week on a dive boat at Truk Lagoon, now named Chuuk Lagoon, diving on sunken Japanese shipwrecks. Japan was almost out of oil towards the end of WW2 & "hid" about half their Naval Fleet in the Truck Lagoon. An off course & sort of lost PBY accidentally flew over Truk and found their ships. It was basically like shooting fish in a barrel when our Carriers launched their Dive Bombers & literally sank hundreds of Japanese ships & a few submarines at anchor. Made for an excellent diving experience.
@@nerblebun Wow! That sounds like it was the dive of a lifetime!
@@Raftjumper07: It was sir; however, I was working at the U.S. Ballistic Missile Test Range at Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands at the time & our own Kwajalein Lagoon, the largest lagoon on the planet at 1,750sq. mi., also had excellent wreck diving just not on the massive scale as Truk. I was on a months vacation & diving all over Micronesia & Mariana Islands. (1991)
The WW2 German Heavy Cruiser, the Prinz Eugen, was located directly across the lagoon from Kwajalein Island where I lived, and was a great dive. Prinz Eugen was the main escort ship to the German Battleship Bismark & actually fired the first salvo on the HMS Hood, Britain's prize Battleship. Bismark finished her off. Hence the war cry "Sink the Bismark".
After the war Prinz Eugen, along with 89 other ships, was used in the infamous Operation Crossroads Abel & Baker day test at Bikini Lagoon. You've most likely seen the film of the nuclear explosion amid the 90 ships. I've actually stood on the deck of the aircraft carrier USS Saratoga which sank & landed perfectly upright on the bottom of Bikini Lagoon. The Prinz refused to sink so they towed her to Kwajalein for "de-contamination" by spraying water on it while sitting docked at the pier. It started listing to starboard about a week later & they tried to tow her out to sea, but lost control where she now lies on her side with stern out of the water & bow at about 140ft on the bottom of the lagoon. Below is the Able/Baker day tests.
ua-cam.com/video/ADD8_2KO5Bk/v-deo.html
@@nerblebun That is an amazing job and adventure in a beautiful part of the world. Just the ships you mentioned brought memories of many different news reel presentations I remember growing up, watching "Victory At Sea" and other shows on Saturday afternoons. Thank you for sharing in detail your memories of that part of the world.
Met him at an Air show in 1986 when he signed my book. Unintentionally insulted him by spelling out my name and saw in his face he was ready to kick my ass, despite him not being in the best of health, but he stayed cordial, but cool. Sorry Pappy I was a nervous dork. Book was really different than expected but I appreciated his honesty about alcohol.
I liked watching the 70's TV show about him.
A real man's man.
They don't make very many men like these guys that fought and died for our country today. Had it not been for these men and women of the Navy and USMC in the Pacific. And the Army and USAF in Europe, we likely would be speaking German or Japanese today.
He worked in kitchen at pow camp.
Only Japanese POW to gain weight in a POW camp from what it looks like.
There needs to be a movie about Pappy’s actions during WWII.
He inspired the only TV show ever made about a Marine squadron.
I got to shake his hand in 1972 at an airshow in New Smyrna Beach, Florida. I was 12.
Semper Fi Pappy
In 2021, the press would ask him about racism in the far east.
Tough guy.
It took you until nearly half way through the video to show a fighter type that he actually flew operationally (Corsair) while you showed just about every type that he DIDN'T fly! Not even a clip of the P-40 which he did fly with the AVG. Tougher than nails and a prime example of what the Marines could accomplish capable of holding the line like the Wildcat but demonstrably superior to the enemy types.
Pappy's looking awfully well fed for having spent 20 months as a guest of the Emperor......
Probably a month or so after he was rescued
They were no doubt in a hospital for a while before they even got to go home. There was a lot going on at that time and getting them home wasn't first on the list.
I’ve seen pictures of the Americans released at the end of the war in Japan. They looked like German concentration camp inmates.
@@mountainguyed67 fact!
I think it was Pappy who made a make-shift sundial while in prison to tell the time of day. A rather dumb guard, who the prisoner's like to f-with, laughed and said, " You dumb Yankee, how do you read it at night!?" Pappy said, "well than you use a flashlight...." and walked off. The guard thought about it a long while and walked away feeling stupid haveing just lost "face". Same guard ended up beating Greg pretty severely for an unrelated matter as a way to get back at him.
I didn't know about this episode. I can surmise that those Japanese guards were a rather small brained frustrated lot! Thanks for sharing this knowledge...
You wouldn’t expect any less from a Marine
Yeah I suspect it was "might uncomfortable". Heros all of them.
He was a Famous ACE.
good stuff. Love WWII footage. ty .
Am I correct that you have muted out the one word that would seem a bit racist these days? I don't see an issue with it. It just wasnt seen that way in '45 when it would be now.
Which word are you speaking of? What's the minute marker?
Hero.
He looks like he was the only one to actually GAIN WEIGHT in a Japanese POW camp.
Leigh...Yea, I also noticed his plump face. Not bad for a "half starved" POW for 20 months. Odd....
Winning....I didn't know that...I take back what I said....not so odd now. In the video, it shows him being carried, perched on the shoulder of the soldiers, as soon as he gets out of the plane that brought him home. It didn't tell us that he had been in a hospital. Thanks for clearing this up.
If you read his book "Baa Baa Black Sheep" , he says that he did gain weight as a POW. He also states that he was well treated in prison. He and his fellow prisoners wrote letters to the war crimes commission stating how well they were treated, but they hung the POW camp commander anyway. The war crimes judge said " We were having too much fun with the prostitutes to read any letters. We just hung them all."
ziggy...very interesting....thanks..!
@@marbleman52 they are not Soldiers . They are Marines, Soldiers are Army.
Hero🇺🇸
He definitely had luck on his side
Maybe God was on the side a puppy Boynton and we call it lucky today
2:39 Other than the bats, the rest of the prison camp reminds me of essential workers since covid.
After 3:05: cue the air raid siren and Blacksheep Squadron theme ;)
If we don’t have men like this anymore it’s over and China will rule our grandkids🇺🇸
and it seems that china is trying to make men like that, while we are.... not, unfortunately. we have a generation that will sucker punch someone in the face just because they dont like that persons politics, someone that has not done any harm to anyone.
Real men
Just wanted to say he hardly looks starved to me, lot's of our boys were like walking skeletons.
He talked about that in his book. Apparently he was able to sweettalk extra food from Japanese workers.
rescued POWs also spent weeks getting rehabbed before making it all the way home, if I remember right an uncle said it was 5 or 6 weeks before making it back to CA
My Dad, at 6'4" came back weighing 120 pounds. Took awhile to fatten him up.
@@briant6333 Most POW's spend weeks in hospitals before returning home back then. Non-vets don't have a clue, they think it's like watching John Wayne movies. Most don't realise there's a war going on today and vets returning from real combat. I know i served 12yrs. USN.
Awesome
This guy Boyington looks Indian or even part Hispanic?.. what’s his race background anyone know?
Souix Indian
@@michaeleasterwood6558 OK, Thanks! That’s nice to know.
@@michaeleasterwood6558 100% or what?
Why such a crap digitiseation of the film?
Digitization of old film stock isn't perfect, it's the content that counts.
Boyington as a "volunteer" in the Flying Tigers. Boyington was given the choice of "volunteering" for the Flying Tigers or be court martialed. He was an alcoholic and a gambler and,of course, heavily in debt. The Army Air Force would bail him out of his debt and not court martial him if he went to China, so he said ok. Apparently several others were also threatened, in order to force them to join the Flying Tigers.
When the USA entered the war, and took over operations in China, the Flying Tiger pilots were treated like scum. They were forced to find their own way out of China and back to the USA.
David Lee "Tex" Hill was a Flying Tiger, he joined the USAAF when they took over operations in the theater. He was previously a Naval Aviator, but obviously had to resign his commission in order to join the Flying Tigers, so what you mentioned there at the end can't be entirely accurate.
@@Nghilifa Read Boyington's book. Very interesting about the China war, Pacific war and POW life. Boyington spent 3 years in a Japanese POW camp and gained weight!
Yeah, but Greg Boyington was a commissioned officer, a Naval Aviator, a1Lt in the regular US Marine Corps [Air Wing] not the Army Air Forces. When the USAAF 14AF was about to take over the AVG, and Gen Chenault wanted to make him an Army pilot as a 2nd Lt -- Boyington resigned and made his way back to the States, hoping to get reinstated in the Marine Air Wing. He was in financial distress when he left Pensacola, true. I don't know if he gambled. He sure could drink, and had a big bar tab from the O Club. In his book, he said what cost a lot of money, was uniforms. All custom tailored. Marine officers were required to buy their own uniforms. Dress Blues, Dress Whites, Class A Greens, Trops, Khakis and untilities. Also he was supporting his family in off-base housing. He had to hide them because junior officiers were not supposed to be married. Nobody bailed him out of his debt, Not the Army.
He met a woman named Lucile on the ship back from India. He appointed her as power of attorney before he left for the South Pacific. She was supposed to see his children were cared for, his ex-wife got alimony, that his air-kill bounties from CNAC were received and banked, and his Marine Major's pay was well managed while he was overseas again. Liquidate his prior debts...
She didn't.
@@HootOwl513 Right, it has been a long time since I read his very interesting book. He credits being a a POW in Japan for showing him he could live without alcohol. I saw him at an airshow in Calif about 1985. He was giving people hell while signing his book, but he apparently was dying of cancer at the time.
@@ziggy2shus624 On another forum, I read an account of a guy -- kid at the time -- who wanted an autograph from Boyington at an airshow. In his tent were some ''official'' pictures for $100 for him to sign. Being a kid, with a 0$ budget he bought a 4 dollar Corsair picture from another vender, and got in line. When he got up to Pappy, tthe grizzled remnant of a man -- in a wheelchair and on O2 -- cussed the kid out, saying he wasn't ''signing any cheap crap.''
I've read ''Baa Baa, Black Sheep,'' by G. Boyington, 'and 'Black Sheep One''. and ''The Black Sheep'' by Bruce Gamble. In BS1, Gamble did mention he played cards, Poker and Bridge, but I don't recall a gambling obsession.
Sloppy editing hurts the credibility of a piece like this. But we can still learn from it.
So you found it less than credible? What parts did you not believe?
It's a minor miracle the Japanese took him to a POW camp. So many were "rescued," beaten to gain any intelligence out of them, beheaded by kırana (so esteemed by sword fans nowadays,) then dumped back into the ocean in pieces.
most people don't people know Greg Boyington have Native American blood (from Sioux tribe), which making him non-European American highest-scoring ace.
Read the book Black Sheep by Bruce Gamble, it change your mind about him
If you thought any of the black sheep were nice people, you are mistaken. They were put together and called black sheep because their personalities made them not wanted anywhere else. He was a hero because of his skills, not his personality.
Best of the best, but he sure doesn't look like he just got out of a japanese prison camp in this video, and why is the guy behind him laughing?
I met him at Falcon field in Mesa,Az.I was 10 just got his book and he wanted 20 bucks. He was a asshole. He gained weight in pow kitchen. Only him he didn't share food with other pows!
Black sheep squadron
Great pilot but did he match Richard bongs total affirmed 42 Japanese aircraft affirmed! One of the the best
No, Bong had 40 confirmed and Boyington had 28
Pappy, enjoying an American cigarette,,,
Talk about classic screw ups .
Who ever made this Back Then sure didn't know what they were doing .
Showing P 36 Airacobras and F 4 F Wildcats and misleading the viewers in the early part of the movie and calling them the US Army .
Deck EM !!! Pappy
P39, not P36...
@@mountainguyed67
Thanks for the catch .
The Japanese left bodies everywhere just killing and torturing. I knew from the TV show that the actual man must have been very special. Now I had no idea.
Just a good hunt with a round engine & wings full of ma deuces fed by the whole nine yards.
I love watching the Black Sheep Squadron.
If you see the fake newsreel in one episode, the general giving the medal to Bob Conrad as Pappy was played by Boyington!
Ha, watching it as we speak, the episode about them meeting the W. A.S.P.S episode.
They had it coming, and got it.
Imagine trying to explain how the marine flyers today are being issued maternity flight suits? He'd just laugh and ask you if you knew the marine responsible for the pregnant lady pilots? Him!! 😂😂😂
A flight suit does not automatically mean "Fighter Pilot" or "Pilot-in-the-air". Some ground crew wear these suits too... And Drone Pilots too...So in your eyes, a pregnant person cannot fly a drone and kick some butt?
I never saw his picture before. When I saw the thumbnail I thought he was a black man. Even in the film he looks like a black man but I recognized his name from *The Black Sheep* TV show
A fierce Sioux Indian. It was in his dna to count coup.
Airmen
P-47 or Spitfire
Strange(!) He doesn't look like any '20 month' prisoner of Japan that I've ever seen before; & I've seen, & known, a few! Not least one that 'claims' to have been starved & beaten the whole time there. :-/
Lucky man I now of some that was eaten alive by the Japanese
He doesn't look anything like Robert Conrad! 😉
More like John Belushi
RC has the same attitude though
@@monoped8437 "Go ahead. Knock this battery off my shoulder."
😂Uh, Ronald Reagans son said he would be appalled at what Trump has done.
Torturers.
😂I guess he is loser according to Trump. Who never played baseball.
US GIs did that in Iraq
What?
That is another hero Trump would not respect because he got captured. LOL.
his treatment by the japanese sounds almost as bad as USMC recruit training
Yeah, no baseball bats in Japanese prison camps.
Which Japanese prison camp were you a prisoner at in WWII?