The Flying Tigers and USMC fighter pilots were separate entities in WWII. Colonel Boyington excelled as a pilot in both ...

Gregory “Pappy” Boyington. This was due to the highly fictionalize and popular 1970s TV show Baa Baa Black Sheep later retitled Black Sheep Squadron starring Robert Conrad as Boyington.

At week’s beginning Marine Major Gregory Boyington (TIME ... straight-shooting “Pappy” Boyington, who had built his “Black Sheep” into one of the best U.S. fighter squadrons) was ...