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Looks like Boyington.
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Lucky Strikes?
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Lucky Strikes it is.
 
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Doesn't that guy know that smoking is hazardous to his health ? Of course trying to shoot down Zeroes may have a tad risky also.
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Is that a B-29 behind them?
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Them there's officers...I seen some before...will they be in AE?
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Caption for this one," Are these guys ever going to shutup and let me get a cold beer to go with this cigarette? Man are the brass boring!"
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Is that a B-29 behind them?


I think it's a C-54. My guess is that this is Boyington after being released from a POW camp.
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Is that a B-29 behind them?


I think it's a C-54. My guess is that this is Boyington after being released from a POW camp.
Or rather an R4D being as these guys are Marines...

edit: make that an R5D being as it looks like a DC-4 rather than a DC-3
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Is that the military version of the DC-4?
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...but what is this object in his belt?



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Doesn't look like Boyington to me.  I doubt anybody in that picture was recently released from a POW camp.  Everyone has meat on their bones.  Most of the Allied POWs held by Japan looked like the people at Buchenwald when they were released.

I agree that the plane in the background looks like an R5D/C-54.

Looks like the guy on the right in the foreground might have a side arm.  There is some kind of belt around his waist and it looks like there is some kind of weight on his right hip.

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That's definitely Boyington - that might be Dick O'Kane in the center, but I'm not sure.  I think it's a pipe in his waistband.
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I agree that it is Greg but also agree that he looks too healthy to have just gotten released...
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I agree that it is Greg but also agree that he looks too healthy to have just gotten released...


Agreed. Definitely Boyington - prior to being a POW. Picture more than likely taken during the VMF-214 days.

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...but what is this object in his belt?



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A pipe tucked in his belt?
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nah, everyone knows that this is Boyington... [:D]



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Doesn't look like Boyington to me.  I doubt anybody in that picture was recently released from a POW camp.  Everyone has meat on their bones.  Most of the Allied POWs held by Japan looked like the people at Buchenwald when they were released.

I agree that the plane in the background looks like an R5D/C-54.

Looks like the guy on the right in the foreground might have a side arm.  There is some kind of belt around his waist and it looks like there is some kind of weight on his right hip.

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I think like wdolson. I've already seen a picture of boyington when he was in AVG , and it don't seem to be this man [&:]
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I'm sure that ear-ring is non regulation - the "brass" can get away with anything.......
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