Few days later came a terse notice from the Navy Department: tough, hard-flying, straight-shooting “Pappy” Boyington, who had built his “Black Sheep ... saw their squadron leader, 23 ...

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.

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