He Was the Marine Corps’ Worst Pilot—Then He Broke Rabaul
Автор: Conflict Legacy
Загружено: 2026-01-11
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At Espiritu Santo in 1943, Major Gregory “Pappy” Boyington wasn’t a clean-cut war hero. He was grounded, hated by senior officers, and stuck in the replacement pool—the “cattle pen.” Then he demanded the pilots nobody wanted, took the F4U Corsair nobody trusted, and built VMF-214: the Black Sheep. What followed wasn’t romantic dogfighting. It was ruthless altitude, speed, and hit-and-run violence—boom-and-zoom tactics designed to survive against veteran Mitsubishi A6M Zero pilots out of Rabaul and Kahili. In weeks, the Black Sheep shocked the South Pacific with impossible kill counts, drew Japan’s best to the fight, and pushed straight into the hornet’s nest over Rabaul—where Boyington’s story took its darkest turn.
This WWII aviation documentary breaks down the Corsair vs Zero matchup, the Black Sheep doctrine, and the brutal math of the Pacific air war—plus the moment Boyington tied the American ace record and vanished into the ocean, leaving legends behind and a different kind of war ahead.
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