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...China General Chennault has already prohibited the publication of his pilots' box scores. Marine Major Joe Foss, who shares the World War II record of 26 kills with missing Marine Major Gregory Boyington, announced recently upon returning to the Pacific: "We're not out for records. ... If we get any Zeros, it will be the result of team play...
...other aces were carrying on; new aces were being dealt from the U.S. deck. An Air Forces report disclosed that Captain Richard R. Bong (TIME, Aug. 9), famed Lightning pilot, had boosted his score to 25, pressing hard on the high mark of 26 shared by Marine Majors Joe Foss and Gregory Boyington (and Captain Eddie Rickenbacker in World...
Like Captain Bong, the other seven, all Marines, racked up their records in the Pacific. Tops with 26 each are veteran Major Joe Foss (Grumman Wildcat) and Major Gregory Boyington (Vought Corsair), who disappeared after knocking down his last victim (TIME...
...record is in danger. This week Joe Foss turned up again in the South Pacific. He had just taken command of one of the Marines' crack Corsair squadrons, was on the prowl again...
...victories in the Mediterranean area. Top-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...