Posts tagged: Pappy Boyington

Pappy Boyington Was Born 99 Years Ago

December 4, 2011 | By Fritz Holznagel

If he’d waited a few days he could have been born on December 7th, Pearl Harbor Day. Which would have been fitting. 

Stephen Cannell, 1941-2010

October 2, 2010 | By Fritz Holznagel

TV writer and producer Stephen Cannell has died at age 69. He co-created The Rockford Files, that wonderful 1970s detective show starring James Garner, along with The A-Team, Baretta (back …..

John Belushi IS Pappy Boyington

March 31, 2010 | By Fritz Holznagel

I just added photos to our profile of Pappy Boyington, the hard-living World War II flying ace who shot down 28 Japanese planes and won the Medal of Honor.Something about the photo looked familiar. I pondered it a while, chewing on a thumbnail… and then it arrived: