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Baa Baa Black Sheep

By: Wilson Press

Type: Hardcover

Product Line: Historical Books (Wilson Press)

Last Stocked on 3/2/2016

Product Info

Title
Baa Baa Black Sheep
Publisher
Category
Author
Gregory Boyington
Publish Year
1958
Pages
384
Dimensions
6x9x1.5"
NKG Part #
2147615184
Type
Hardcover

Description

A Marine flyer since 1935, Colonel Boyington was encouraged to resign his commission to fly with the Flying Tigers in China. There he got credit for five Japanese planes. But when he applied for reinstatement in the Marine Corps, he found himself disgraced for "having left the Corps in time of national emergency."

For nearly three months he parked cars in a Seattle garage until, in desperation, he telegraphed an Under Secretary of the Navy. In a few days he was on the way to the South Pacific where he was given a squadron of misfits. These pilots, unwanted by other outfits, and led by the oldest active Marine fighter pilot, made one of the greatest records of the war.

The heart of this book is the colorful story of Boyington's Black Sheep Squadron.

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