However, Colonel Gregory "Pappy" Boyington (December 4 ... up by an IJN submarine and spent 18 months as a prisoner of war ...

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.

But the mark is still to be broken. Few days later came a terse notice from the Navy Department: tough, hard-flying, straight-shooting “Pappy” Boyington, who had built his “Black Sheep ...