We used to go to EAA airshows at Healdsburg, Watsonville, and Merced. I don’t remember which show I met Pappy Boyington.
Tex Hill lived in Sherman, TX in the 1990’s so he was at many of the DFW airshows. I made the mistake of asking Tex Hill about Boyington. That was the end of our conversation. They both flew with the Flying Tigers. He and most of the other Flying Tigers hated Boyington.
Yeah, I’ve heard that Boyington was not the best-liked guy in the Flying Tigers.