Blood Red Skies: US Ace Pilot – 'Pappy' Boyington
(2020)
Who is this game suitable for?
Suitable for ages 12 and up. You can play with 2 to 99 players.
For the pros among you, the following mechanics can be decisive: Scenario / Mission / Campaign Game...
Game Data
| Average time to play: | 60 |
| Minimum age: | 12 |
| Number of players: | 2 - 99 |
| Publisher: | Warlord Games |
| Designers: | Andy Chambers |
| Artists: | Unknown |
| Mechanics: | Scenario / Mission / Campaign Game |
Major Gregory “Pappy” Boyington (Medal of Honor, Navy Cross) learnt his deadly trade during a year’s tour in China as a member of the 1st American Volunteer Group (The Flying Tigers).
Upon returning to the US, In 1943, he was charged to take a group of twenty-seven young men and form the new Marine Attack Squadron 214.
VMA214 (Black Sheep) would earn its reputation and the Presidential Unit Citation for extraordinary heroism in action under Pappy's command; fighting for 84 days achieving a record 203 Japanese planes destroyed or damaged, produced nine fighter aces with 97 confirmed air-to-air kills (22 by Boyington), several troop transports and supply ships sunk, destroyed many installations, in addition to numerous other victories.
—description from the publisher
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Blood Red Skies: US Ace Pilot – 'Pappy' Boyington
Last Updated: 2025-10-04 13:25:02 UTC
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