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Title: Pappy off on flying party
Alternative Title: Valley Times Photo Collection
Contributor: This project was supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian
Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation and Photo Friends
Date Created and/or Issued: 1959
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Gregory "Pappy" Boyington (December 4, 1912 - January 11, 1988) was a United States Marine Corps officer and flying ace during World War II. For his heroic actions, he was awarded both the Medal of Honor and the Navy Cross. Boyington died of cancer and was buried in Arlington National Cemetery.
Photograph caption dated April 13, 1959 reads, "Preparing to take off tomorrow, Pappy Boyington shows route he will take on flying-author 'party all over United States,' visiting 30 cities, in connection with his best-selling 'Baa Baa Black Sheep.'"
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00085276
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d004_f2_i23
CARL0004765017
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/42776
Subject: Boyington, Gregory
Marines--United States
Air pilots--United States
Authors, American
Airplanes
Cessna aircraft
United States--Maps
Valley Times Collection photographs

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