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...ranking U.S. aces in World War II are thickest in the Pacific, where two Marines-Major Joe Foss, and Major Gregory Boyington, who was killed in combat (TIME, Jan. 24)-have tied Rickenbacker's score of 26. Last week Lieut. Robert N. Hanson went hunting in his Corsair for his 26th victim near Rabaul, failed to return. Two other Marine pilots (Lieut. Kenneth Walsh, Captain Donald Aldrich) have destroyed 20 or more enemy planes...
...days later came a terse notice from the Navy Department: tough, hard-flying, straight-shooting "Pappy" Boyington, who had built his "Black Sheep" into one of the best U.S. fighter squadrons) was missing in action. His Corsair had gone down over Rabaul in the very fight that...
...bent-winged, big-nosed Corsair fighter slid down the South Pacific sky to the Bougainville runway. A balding, disgruntled pilot hopped out. Marine Major Gregory Boyington had just shot down his 25th Jap plane, over Rabaul...
...tying, two short of beating the U.S. record of 26 enemy planes shot down, a record held jointly by World War II's Captain Joe Foss and World War I's Captain Eddie Rickenbacker. "Pappy" Boyington stomped off the jungle-hemmed field, vowing that he and his Corsair would buzz up every day until they notched a new mark...
...Other Marine Corsair squadron records: Hellhawks, 104; Wolfpack, 86; Swashbucklers, 33; Eightballs, 28; Flying Deuces...