NEW U.S. AIR ACE MISSING
NEW YORK, January 6. It is officially announced that Major Gregor Boyington, of the marines, has equalled the American ace record by snooting down 26 enemy planes. Major Boyington equals the record set by Captain Rickenbacker in the last war and hy Major Joseph Foss in this war. ' A later report states that Major (Boyington is missing in action. He had "been in the Solomons.
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Evening Star, Issue 25068, 8 January 1944, Page 5
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