Greg "Pappy" Boyington on "To Tell The Truth"

[iParatrooper]

That's awesome! Thanks for posting. I saw Pappy at an airshow when I was a kid.

[NRSwebmaster]

@gaelic1of9 is absolutely correct. Boyington was correct as the salute of a MOH is traditional, not required and as the question was phrased, he was truthful. Which did manage to throw the bloodhounds off a bit...LOL

[gaelic1of9]

Please note the question was phrased with the words "must salute" , thus his answer is absolutely correct. Neither my Uncle ..a Navy pilot nor I ,a FMF Corpsman ,would be required to salute...but to have failed to do so would have tarnished us...and speaking of tarnish.... It is my opinion that the University of Washington needs to have all federal loans eliminated...if they have so little regard for the hundreds of thousands lives that gave them a country ....they are terrorists in the making

[MrSexyman62]

My last name is boyington...

[nutz4all]

A true American hero, he fought hard and well for us and our future, like I said, A true American hero, God bless you for your devotion tp preserve liberty!

[BoldReiver]

I met "Pappy" on July 4th (1981) @ the Bellingham (WA) airshow. To this day a treasured momento is the print entitled "Pappy's 1st Kill" that he signed for me (it hangs on the wall above my computer & illustrates his time in combat w/ the 1st Pursuit Squadron A.V.G.). A hero to all who love & cherish freedom!

[mrrocketgrunt]

usmc!

[lpydb]

Was there a game show Kitty Carlisle wasn't in.

[RichardHammond11]

Wow knew who it was from the start, great find.

[TheSV3]

@RichardHammond11 So did I. What got me was that for 2 wrong votes they got $500 bucks. In later versons of the show, especially hosted by Gary Moore, you got $500 ONLY if ALL the votes were wrong: I think it was $50 bucks per wrong vote otherwise.

[tomservo56954]

He spent as much time in that prison camp as the TV show about him ran...

A few years later TTTT had on Frank Kurtz, the WW2 flyer who put his plane together from odds and ends and called it "The Swoose Goose". At the end of the show he was joined by his college aged daughter, named after the plane--future actress Swoosie Kurtz.

[furtherdefinitions]

It was obvious that the middle guy was Pappy.

[amoswt]

I saw him at a air show in Kansas city.He was leaning on a tent post smoking a cigarette.How cool is that? 

[historygeeek]

@amoswt I met him at Pasco Wa. in 1983. Spent some time. He was REAL!

[TheJomogogo]

@amoswt

If he was leaning on a tent post it was prolly cause he was drunk, Boyington was a hard drinker.;

[ForkliftJoe]

Bud the MC was the voice of Superman in the radio and 1960's cartoon series.

Big secret back in the 40's!

[cloudberry121]

"Well, I was scared to death, frankly."

That was the best clue of all. The most heroic of people are the ones who have the guts to tell the truth about that.

[Antiaman]

I met Pappy Boyington at an air show at Falcon Field in Mesa, Arizona while attending ASU. (1982) He was sitting at a table in the sun with his wife, and they were both wearing matching yellow "jumpsuits". I had bought a poster of a F4U Corsair from a nearby booth and asked Pappy to sign it for me. He said he didn't like signing items from so-and-so's booth. I told him that I had already bought and read his book, but that it was back home in Maryland. He then went ahead and signed my poster.

[MrRadiantSynergy]

We love you and miss you Greg. Stood on the wing of our friends corsair today at Sun N Fun, and couldnt believe you have been gone almost 22 years now. We will have a pipe bowl of snipes when we meet in that great airshow in the sky. Semper Fi my friend.

[CookyMonzta]

At 0:02, where did "18 December 1955" come from? This show didn't debut until 18 Dec. 1956.

[swtypieln]

Enjoyed watching this show when i was a kid. I wish my dad were here to see this as he was a cousin to Pappy Boyington.

Larry N. Boyington, aka Larry Neal, former curator of the Wax Museum on the big 1520 KOMA

[SCE2AUX]

For the record, Medal of Honor winners always RECEIVE the salute.

[curtisjones400]

this was a great show was a little kid and watched this show

[croissantanyone]

Pappy is an American hero.

Those communist student council members at the University of Washington who voted against a memorial to Pappy because he was too "white" can go fuck themselves.

[CarlDuke]

Not only did these students display their lack of decency and evidence of their bigotry, but also their stupidity as Boyington was of Sioux Indian ancestry.

[brundage3]

@CarlDuke BUT ,,, Josh Sanford was. He served with the Flying Tigers and I went to highschool with his daughter in Reedsburg Wisconsin. She was two years behind me and I graduated in 1965.

[Skytroop]

@croissantanyone damn straight!

[123456789mischief]

@croissantanyone your kiddding right?

guy goes to war goes through a prison camp and he's to white? that is to stupid to be made up so I guess I'll have to believe it.

[bahashawa1]

@croissantanyone Amen Brother !!

[scandalousrogue]

of course with the resources available today, I recognized Pappy right away

[Cris43130]

Seeing this clip several years later gave me an unfair advantage in identifying the correct contestant. Number 2 was the shortest and when Col. Boyington's story was fictionalized on episodic televison as The Blacksheep Squadron, Robert Conrad was chosen to play Boyington because of his stature. I also remember hearing Conrad repeat the answer to why Boyington got his nickname and that also convinced me.

[mbandarra3]

This is great!! Thanks much.

[shandamoon]

"Tempura Fugit".  LOL

[Jigsaw407]

I thought the other two guys were to tall to be fighter pilots and the one with the grey hair looked too much like you would imagine a Hollywood hero to look like. Only the real Pappy had the kind of humbleness that I would expect from a real war hero.

[knight5749]

Awesome!! This is another reason I love YouTube! Where else can you see stuff like this!!

[rickbar123]

wow, its an honor to hear and see him

[cloudberry121]

Thanks so much for posting this, NRSwebmaster!

[cloudberry121]

The other two guys didn't even look like him. My Step-Dad was lucky enough to interview him once and got an autographed copy of his book. It's long gone now. I feel sad about that. I read it when I was a teenager and was so impressed with him.

[NRSwebmaster]

You know, that's funny. My wife and I knew him in sight. The only thing I can figure is that it was before his resurgence of celebrity and the 50's did not have the visual media we do today.

I think I read that book when I was in High School, 30 + years ago...good read. Thanks for watching.

[Oobatzxv]

@cloudberry121

You have to remember that this was the age wherethe majority of news was recieved over the radio during the dawn of TV. While most people would know the name, they had no clue what he looked like, so looking like him was a moot point.

[cloudberry121]

@Oobatzxv

That's a bit odd. His photo was on the book cover and in the book.

Amazing man! Gotta love him. :-)

[viperBSG]

Wow! This is so cool!the Real Greg Boyington.A true Natural warrior.God Bless him

[kevinvanmeter]

I really hate to break this you, but "To Tell the Truth" debuted on CBS on December 18th, 1956.

[bigred997]

I thyink he was saying that this episode originally aired in 1957.

[brucestringbean]

Boyington had American Indian ancestry & was born in Cour De Lane Idaho. Based on the ancestry I picked 2 imediately & of course he was the only one who was born in Idaho

[bigred997]

well, it was kind of giveaway because Robert Conrad played the guy and i remember at the time the media saying that he had his build and personality down pretty good. conrad and pappy appear about the same height.

[randyvac01]

strage i never know that pappy boyington was on the show tell the truth

[MacGrurry]

why is that strage?

[randyvac01]

i never know!!!!!