I stumbled on this today. It was fun watching.

Pretty neat to actually see/hear the man. Of course if you know anything about "Pappy" Boyingon you could tell who it was as soon as you saw the silhouettes at the very beginning.

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Originally posted by mojojojo:
Pretty neat to actually see/hear the man. Of course if you know anything about "Pappy" Boyingon you could tell who it was as soon as you saw the silhouettes at the very beginning.

Yeah, he was of short stature. I'm surprised no one on the panel knew that.

Jim

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Originally posted by mojojojo:
Pretty neat to actually see/hear the man. Of course if you know anything about "Pappy" Boyingon you could tell who it was as soon as you saw the silhouettes at the very beginning.

Yep. Always been a hero of mine.
As were many of Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines.

A lot of people probably didn't know who he was until the TV show and that was much later.

Boyington was also in three episodes of the TV show. He played a USMC General:

^^^^^^^

Cool photo! One of my favorite TV shows growing up.

Thanks for the post.

Pretty cool

Funny to think that just ten years after the war none of those four knew him when 70 years after the war I picked him out immediately.

Lack of 24 hour news I suppose. I often think that it would be nice to go back to that type of ignorance.

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Originally posted by Gustofer:
Funny to think that just ten years after the war none of those four knew him when 70 years after the war I picked him out immediately.

Lack of 24 hour news I suppose. I often think that it would be nice to go back to that type of ignorance.

I remember To Tell The Truth, even went to see it in the audience as a kid growing up in the 60's. My dad was in the Army in the Pacific but I never heard of Boyington until the TV show in the 70's.

We didn't have access to all the news like today. The TV, movies and much of the war coverage and information about the war was about Europe.

Most of the movies and TV shows were not about the Pacific. I know that was a sore subject with my dad and his friends that fought there, especially the Army soldiers. Everyone seemed to think of Europe as the Army and Pacific as the Marines war. Most of the stories from the far east were about Pearl Harbor, Bataan and the early setbacks, then Iwo Jima, Okinawa and then the bomb. The Generals and Admirals were the big names.

Hogan Heros was as much as many people knew about prison camps. The Great Escape was at least based on a true story.

I know I've learned a lot more about it in the last 20 years.

Met him in Oshkosh at the air show many years ago. Really looked old at that point. He passed away a few years later.

Pretty cool - his answer of General Chennault gave it away early.

You can still buy Geritol, BTW.

Whoa, Ralph Bellamy