copyright 1958 "Eight Impression" stated on copyright page; G. P. Putnam's Sons publishers, New York; hardbound; very good condition with unmarked pages; minor ding top of spine; dust jacket quite poor with rips and missing section; overall, a nice book with a poor dust jacket.
 
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The World War II air war in the Pacific needed tough men like Colonel Pappy Boyington and his Black Sheep Squadron. The legendary Marine Corps officer and his bunch of misfits, outcasts, and daredevils gave new definition to "hell-raising" - on the ground and in the skies.
 
Pappy himself was a living legend - he personally shot down 28 Japanese planes, and won the Congressional Medal of Honor and the Navy Cross. He broke every rule in the book in doing so, but when he fell into the hands of the vengeful Japanese his real ordeal began.
 
Here, in his own words, is the true story of America's wildest flying hero, of his extraordinary heroism, and of his greatest battle of all - the fight to survive.