BAA BAA BLACK SHEEP

Colonel Gregory Boyington, USMC, Ret.

VG/VG. Light edgewear to jacket & chipping to jacket, mostly on head & heel of spine. Colors still bright. Heel of spine has small chip & network of small creases. Jacket in mylar protector. Book itself bright & tight. (N.Y.: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1958.) 9th impression Photos on endpages, frontispiece, 384 pages. INSCRIBED BY BOYINGTON on back of frontispiece: "To Stan Dale: Your old flyboy friend thanks you and wishes luck. Sincerely, Col. Greg "Pappy" Boyington, May 18, 1959."

A Marine flyer since 1935, Colonel Boyington was encouraged to resign his commission to fly with the Flying Tigers in China. There he got credit for six Japanese planes. But when he applied for reinstatement in the Marine Corps, he found himself disgraced for "having left the Corps in time of national emergency." For nearly three months he parked cars in a Seattle garage until, in desperation, he telegraphed an Under Secretary of the Navy. In a few days he was on the way to the South Pacific where he was given a squadron of misfits. These pilots, unwanted by other outfits, and led by the oldest active Marine fighter pilot, made one of the great records of the war. The heart of this book is the colorful story of Boyington's Black Sheep Squadron. Boyington won the Navy Cross, the Congressional Medal of Honor and spent twenty months in a Japanese prison camp.

$125.00