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Post by magic8ball on Mar 29, 2006 12:20:02 GMT -5
This show was in the 70s and it was about a squadron of Marine Fighter pilots led by the legendary Greg "Pappy" Boyington. Anyone else fans of this show?
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Post by spitfire740 on Mar 29, 2006 12:42:57 GMT -5
My dad loved that show, he used to watch it every day. I only watched like 3 episodes. It was pretty good. Although the movie was said to be majorly incorrect....
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Post by reese on Mar 29, 2006 14:37:04 GMT -5
It use to be on the history channel a few years back... but now its gone
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Post by Gordak on Mar 29, 2006 21:40:11 GMT -5
I watched italot when i was 11 or 12 years old, I wasn't a huge fan, I really only watched it for the planes and gun camera footage.
My favorite was the episode where they were testing B17s un-escorted. Later i found out it was mostly a true story. -Gordak
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Post by magic8ball on Mar 30, 2006 10:00:00 GMT -5
Some of my favorite episodes was when the pilots interacted with the nurses. Seeing it again recently I noticed that many of the nurses had 1970s hairdos when it was supposed to be 1942. And Krup that's a great story about Pappy Boyington. And your'e right, he was a genuine American hero. Hard living, hard drinking hard charging American hero. They don't make 'em like him anymore.
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Post by granfury on Sept 16, 2006 8:01:59 GMT -5
Yeah, I liked the show a lot..Bob conrad was awesome as pappy boyington..just seeing those differant versions of corsairs in the air what a sight..and those engines when they landed and parked..I got to get me some of those episodes..good memories...
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Post by Nimlas on Sept 16, 2006 18:05:07 GMT -5
I used to watch that show all the time when I was little. I was at an airshow once with my father and there were some 214 vets there. I got an autographed picture, and got to shake their hands. It was an honor.
I really liked Pappy's dog, Meatball was it? The gun camera footage was pretty cool. I really love the mechanic, he was awesome.
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Post by 2nd Bat on Sept 24, 2006 0:21:38 GMT -5
The mechanic "Red" was Elvises main body guard for years. The real Pappy Boyington was a UofW graduate here in the NW and there was a move to build a statue of him on campus. The do gooders rallied against it saying he may have been a hero during the war but was otherwise a wife beater and drunk in civilian life. Both allegations are true. A sad, sad and mindless effort. They also felt it inappropriate to honor such an efficient killer of other human beings. (Which he truly was)
Amazing. They're free to pursue their liberal arts educations because of men like Boyington and yet because he wasn't otherwise saintly he doesn't deserve a statue inspite of his well deserve and reluctantly awarded Medal of Honor.
It makes me embarassed to live in the liberal center of the known universe the Pacific Northwest. A follow-up movement here in the Northwest Determined that there have been 5 Medal of Honor Award winners from the alumni of the UofW. It would seem a commemorative on campus would be most appropriate honoring all of them. Often the qualities of a great warrior do not carry over into civilian life.
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Post by CharleyNovember on Sept 24, 2006 9:57:11 GMT -5
They don't really know history then. Few heros are saintly. We honor them for the great things they do and overlook thier imperfections, we always have.
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Post by 2nd Bat on Sept 24, 2006 13:48:30 GMT -5
Incidently, Pappy was called Pappy because he was much older then his 20 something pilots having served with the famous Flying Tigers in China on a civilian contract. Like most great pilots he was heavy (it works well for handling severe G forces) and didn't look anything like the always trim Robert Conrad. In fact Pappy bore a striking resemblance to the fellow who played the general in the series (shown in the lower left of the cast picture.) His pilots were not the renegades and misfits depicted in the show at all but Pappy absolutely was. He was extremely unpopular with the brass (He was loud, boisterous, often drunk and a legitimate brawler with little military decorum in the rear areas) He was only was put in for the Medal of Honor when they were sure he was dead having been shot down and reported as KIA. He was in fact captured and served out the war as a Japaneses POW.
His unit was a collection of otherwise unassigned pilots. They settled on the "Blacksheep squadron" when "Boyingtons Bastards" was rejected as unmilitary.
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Post by alamoscout on Oct 18, 2006 21:07:10 GMT -5
Actually, according to the president of the student council who voted down Boyington they state for the record before it was overturned that he was not chosen because they already had several war heros in statue form on the grounds. None of which, according to the opposing council, were WW2 heroes. Scout The mechanic "Red" was Elvises main body guard for years. The real Pappy Boyington was a UofW graduate here in the NW and there was a move to build a statue of him on campus. The do gooders rallied against it saying he may have been a hero during the war but was otherwise a wife beater and drunk in civilian life. Both allegations are true. A sad, sad and mindless effort. They also felt it inappropriate to honor such an efficient killer of other human beings. (Which he truly was) Amazing. They're free to pursue their liberal arts educations because of men like Boyington and yet because he wasn't otherwise saintly he doesn't deserve a statue inspite of his well deserve and reluctantly awarded Medal of Honor. It makes me embarassed to live in the liberal center of the known universe the Pacific Northwest. A follow-up movement here in the Northwest Determined that there have been 5 Medal of Honor Award winners from the alumni of the UofW. It would seem a commemorative on campus would be most appropriate honoring all of them. Often the qualities of a great warrior do not carry over into civilian life.
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Post by 2nd Bat on Oct 29, 2006 23:49:54 GMT -5
Incredible isn't it? The outcry during the hearing process was about his inappropriate actions after the war and their problem with honoring a killer of other human beings. I suppose officially and for the record they had to come up with something that would calm the opposition most of whom were from the community at large not the academic community or university faculty.
There's a lot of statuettes and sculpture at the University that frankly if it's ART I'm glad I'm John.
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Post by guitarmaster on Oct 30, 2006 22:06:43 GMT -5
I havent seen it but my dad met Pappy Boyington when he was a kid.
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Post by deuce on Nov 2, 2006 17:16:44 GMT -5
I remember when I was a kid I used to watch it all the tome on the history channel. I wish they still showed it.
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