Old TV series about ww2 Corsair pilots on Pacific

That's what I thought when they disallowed it for the lady answering on "Jeopardy" tonight. She still left off 'squadron' so she wasn't totally correct.

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Bill Banaszak, MFE

Bye Bye Blacksheep was the title. The author's name escapes me at the (senior) moment.

Gotta love the title. :-)

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The guy was proven to be a fraud, the closest he got to Boyington was he was in the air that day. He was flying top cover at 20,000, Boyington was at 200ft, if he shot Boyington down, he had a great aim and a special long ranged guns. My info comes from a friend that was in the pacific, assigned to enemy aircraft evaluation. When this fraud showed up, he and another from his unit, decieded to do some digging. After he was outed, he dissappeared for a number of years, till Boyington, and the 2 gentlemen who had exposed hi had died, then reappeared up in the Northwest US, selling his book and advertising in several aviation magazines. The only true facts in the book were, he did fly a Zero, and he survived the war, other than that................. Matt Gunsch, A&P,IA,Private Pilot Riding member of the 2003 world champion drill team Arizona Precision Motorcycle Drill Team GWRRA,NRA,GOA

Great title: "Bye Bye Blacksheep". :-)

I don't remember the author's name (senior moment, I guess). It's boxed away during the remodel.

He also held a post war distance record for light aircraft.

Tom

Thanks for the update. I had heard something to that effect over the years.

A couple of years ago there was a German who flew Me 262s (among other things) at a local airshow.

My guest that day was a friend who was a Mahal, the volunteers who flew with the Israelis in '48. He mentioned that he had flown Messerschmitts and the German got all jovial and asked what types and where. When my friend said 109s for Israel the German deflated like an overcooked sausage.

A few months later the German was exposed as a fraud. He had been a echanic and worked on the Me 262s as well as others.

Who was the guy a couple of years back who claimed to be a pilot with the AVG and wasn't? He had a book out.

Tom

Interesting coincidence today. I wondered if she was too late on the BSS answer or if she couldn't change the answer after giving the "Black Sheep" answer. Would have been interesting if she had said BSS for her original answer.

Heck, when did "Jeopardy" start asking questions I could answer. ;-)

WmB

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Shirley you jest, sir. I get most of them except for those times when they ask sports or poetry questions. Of course, that's sitting here at home. Were I on TV I'd sound like Cliff Claven trying to talk to a woman. :)

Bill Banaszak, MFE

The TV series are based on a real squadron and flies the same kind of aircraft. Some names are real too, but apart from that and the water I don't belive there's much historically corret stuff in here.

Wasn't ther also a series called "Leathernecks" (or something) And as we're talking TV here anyway; I'm still looking for the title of a B/W movie where a Northrop Alpha (or Gamma) but I think it was an Alpha, starred as a mailplane. I faintly remember the thing landing in the snow. Can somebody give me a hint?

Dennis Loep The Glueing Dutchman

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Flying Lethernecks:

I have the book. Captain Masajiro "Mike" Kawato, J.S.D.A.F. Ret on the cover.

You mean...it *wasn't* "Tommy Hirachi"?

I am crushed....

That's it!

Thanks, now I don't have to dig through the boxes to find it.

Tom

You MUST have seen his time on "Jeopardy". Questions were on topics like "Beer" and "Virginity", but he blew it anyway.

Probably Saburo Sakai's "Samurai", ghosted by Martin Caidin (IIRC).

Stephen "FPilot" Bierce/IPMS #35922 {Sig Quotes Removed on Request}

Too bad Peter Frampton didn't pull him out ofthe drink before the Jap sub got 'em.

WmB

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No, it was Mike Kawato, as pointed out by a poster who had immediate access to the book.

Tom