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...Pilots (CBS) records the adventures of two young pilots who work for an independent aviation company; against ABC's Donny and Marie and NBC's Sanford and Son, they may never get it off the ground. Baa Baa Black Sheep (NBC) expands the feats of scrappy Pappy Boyington, the celebrated World War II Marine Corps fighter pilot, in Dirty Dozen fashion...
...pressure has crushed many war heroes. World War II Flying Ace "Pappy" Boyington returned to take to the bottle, fall into debt and observe bitterly: "Show me a hero and I'll show you a bum." Marine Ira Hayes, one of the idolized flag raisers at Iwo Jima, died at 32 in a drunken stupor, frozen in the wintry outdoors of an Indian reservation. Similar strains tear at relatively unknown Congressional Medal of Honor winners as their wartime exploits dog them. Marine Johnny Basilone, decorated for bravery at Guadalcanal, was obsessed with the notion that someone else had done...
...Most Distinguished." Charles E. ("Commando") Kelly, the devil-may-care World War II hero who used 60-mm. mortar shells as hand grenades against the Germans, was there. So was Gregory ("Pappy") Boyington, the Marine ace who shot 28 Japanese planes out of the sky and destroyed another 24 on the ground. A reformed alcoholic, Boyington is now a successful public relations man in North Hollywood, Calif., but in casual clothes and bow tie he still looked like an adventurer about to sign up with the Flying Tigers. The oldest man in the garden was General Charles E. Kilbourne...
Sunday Sports Spectacular (CBS, 2:30-4 p.m.). An aerial circus partly narrated by Flying Ace "Pappy" Boyington, in which acrobats skip about on the wings of planes in flight, board a flying aircraft from a moving car, and tell all about it while falling through the air some 6,000 ft. before pulling the parachute ripcord...
Married. Marine Corps Reserve Colonel Gregory ("Pappy") Boyington, 46, World War II ace (28 Japanese planes), reformed tosspot and bestselling autobiographer (Baa Baa Black Sheep); and TV Actress Dolores ("Dee") Tatum, 33; he for the third time ("first time I've been married sober"), she for the second; in Denver...