Baa baa black sheep : the true story of the "bad boy" hero of the Pacific Theatre and his famous black sheep squadron
(2019)

Nonfiction

eAudiobook

Provider: hoopla

Details

PUBLISHED
[United States] : Tantor Audio, 2019
Made available through hoopla
EDITION
Unabridged
DESCRIPTION

1 online resource (1 audio file (13hr., 35 min.)) : digital

ISBN/ISSN
9781977354044 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) MWT12354293, 1977354041 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) 12354293
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Narrated by Eric Jason Martin

Here, in his own words, is the true story of America's wildest flying hero, of his extraordinary heroism, and of his greatest battle of all-the fight to survive. The World War II air war in the Pacific needed tough men like Colonel Pappy Boyington and his Black Sheep Squadron. The legendary Marine Corps officer and his bunch of misfits, outcasts, and daredevils gave a new definition to "hell-raising"-on the ground and in the skies. Pappy himself was a living legend-he personally shot down twenty-eight Japanese planes, and won the Congressional Medal of Honor and the Navy Cross. He broke every rule in the book doing so, but when he fell into the hands of the vengeful Japanese his real ordeal began

Mode of access: World Wide Web

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