I read “Baa Baa Black Sheep”. Every American should read it. One of the amazing things that I learned was that Boyington spent most of 1942 working as a parking lot attendant in Seattle. He had previously resigned his commission in the Marine Corps and fought with the Flying Tigers in China. The Marine Corps was very reluctant to take him back. He drank so much hard liquor it is amazing that he was able to fly at all.
Oh, and the part of the story when he crashed his burning plane into the middle of the ocean and was picked up by a Japanese submarine...you have to read it.
Another good WW2 aviation book is God Is My Co-Pilot by Robert Scott.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1030044.God_Is_My_Co_Pilot