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S.W.I.N.E. (Students Wildly Ignorant aboujt Nearly Everything)
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 *** Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com *** |
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