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.
Or when the Jap commander on the ground asked Boyington what his angels were ?
Why would that be in the official report?
BTW I read Boyington’s book 3 times
I read Foss’s Book two times
I read Scot’s book two times and also his follow up
I read P47 ace Johnson’s book two times
I read several other WWII aces books
And about Foss he was not comfortable being around Boyington socially —probably due to Boyington’s drinking
The one thing I remember about Foss is his defense of Senator Joe McCarthy Tail Gunner Joe
As the liberals do today they smeared McCarthy and said he didn’t deserve his Air Medal
Foss liked McCarthy and said in his book McCarthy earned
the right to the medal