Patrick Murray wrote:


Yofuri wrote:


Senate member Karl Smith amended the resolution to eliminate a clause
that said Boyington "was credited with destroying 26 enemy aircraft,
tying the record for most aircraft destroyed by a pilot in American
Uniform," for which he was awarded the Navy Cross.


THat clause should be eliminated because it is WRONG. Boyington was
credited with 26 kills (though he claimed a couple more but unable to be
confirmed) which would make him the highest scoring ace of the US Marine
Corps. The American Aces of Aces was DIck Bong who shot down 40 Japanese
with his P-38.


Quite true; a confusion of eras and aces.

The confusion probably results from the reports of Bong's action on 12
April 1944 when his three kills took him to twenty-eight, exceeding
Rickenbacker's WWI record of twenty-six.

Rick

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