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To: Snickering Hound

What has that got to do with what Boyington said about radio contact with the Jap ground

And Boyington said the TV show was BS


104 posted on 02/08/2018 7:07:36 PM PST by uncbob
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To: uncbob
What has that got to do with what Boyington said about radio contact with the Jap ground

Because it's BS?

There was an incident when VMF-214 circled a Japanese airbase at Bougainville until the Japanese got hot headed enough that they sent up their fighters losing 20 aircraft. No radio contact in the official write up of the action.

VMF-214 being a bunch of screw-ups and raw recruits no one wanted was also an invention. Action had been slow and there were over 2 dozen pilots available for replacements for other Marine squadrons but weren't needed. Some were veterans some were replacements fresh from the States. So they formed VMF-214 out of them with the squadron name having been previously used by a previous Marine squadron at Guadalcanal.

They fought for 84 days and shot down over 200 Japanese aircraft. At which point the squadron was dissolved and they were used as replacements for other Marine squadrons as originally intended.

105 posted on 02/08/2018 7:33:06 PM PST by Snickering Hound
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