That was a good book. I read my oldest brother’s copy. I think it was in that book where I read that the P-47 could also out-roll most if not all other WWII fighters, including the Spitfire.
My other brother once met Pappy Boyington at an airshow, around 1980, and still has an autographed copy of Boyington’s autobiography.
I met Pappy Boyington in the late 1970’s at an airshow in California. I have read his book.
I moved from California to the Dallas area in 1991. Cavanaugh Flight Museum in Addison had spring and fall airshows in the 1990’s. I met Paul Tibbits (Enola Gay pilot), Robert Morgan (Memphis Belle pilot), Joe Engle (astronaut), Hoot Gibson (astronaut), and Tex Hill (Flying Tigers pilot). Hoot Gibson’s wife was in space abord the Space Shuttle while he was at this airshow. We drove to Oshkosh in 1978 when I was a teenager and stayed in the campground for a week across the street from the airshow.