European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 4, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Joe Foss right talks with rear adm William Hayden prior to his inclusion in the naval aviation Hall of Honor in Pensacola Fla. Gregory Quot Pappy Quot Boyington marines Black sheep and straight Arrow inducted into Hall of Honor by Bill Kaczor the associated press be was a hard drinking brawler who inspired a television series about his Black sheep Squadron. The other was a straight Arrow who became a general governor and football commissioner. Depending on who is doing the counting one or the other is the top flying Ace in Marine corps history. Black sheep Leader Gregory Quot Pappy Quot Boyington who died of cancer at 75 in 1988, and Joe Foss 79, recently were enshrined together in the naval aviation Hall of Honor for their world War ii heroics.  pair of aces both medal of Honor winners were friends and never considered themselves in Competition to shoot Clown the most enemy planes Foss recalled. A o Quot combat a you Don t look at that As a game Quot Foss said. Quot combat s dangerous. You Are liable to end up losing your breathing  Boyington s record remains As. Controversial in death As he was in life. The american fighter aces association of Mesa ariz., credits him with 24.5 Aerial victories the naval aviation guide gives him 25.5 and his Marine corps biography puts the number at 28. That s two More than Foss but Foss still can be considered the top Marine Ace because ajl 26 of his kills came As a Marine. Boyington s 28 total included six kills As a flying Tiger in China before the United states entered the War. The aces association and naval aviation guide credit him with fewer flying Tiger victories. A. The Hall of Honor is part of the National museum of naval aviation at the Pensacola naval air station. That s where Foss who returned for the enshrinement and Boyington met in 1940. Quot Back 50 some years ago when i was roaming around Here i never had any idea i d be receiving any honors Quot Foss said. Quot i was just figuring maybe i d be Lucky to get though the  Foss now residing in Phoenix left the marines As a major but advanced to brigadier general in the South Dakota air National guard. He was twice elected governor of South Dakota in the 1950s. Foss later served As commissioner of the american football league and president of the _ National Rifle association. Boyington s Fame revived when his 1958 autobiography Baa Baa Black a sheep became a television series of the same name later retitled Black sheep Squadron in the 1970s. Actor Robert Conrad played Boyington As a likable rogue but that was a sanitized version of the real thing Quot the Ace s son said. Quot he was a lot tougher. He was smart and Clever and pugilistic Quot said retired air Force it. Col. Gregory Boyington or. Quot he enjoyed the rowdiness of the men. He loved it. He was t a bad Guy but he was a Tough . Quot he was a great fighter Pilot great shot and could handle an air plane As Well or better than anyone else Quot Foss recalled. Quot his Only problem was with. Alcohol. When he drank. He d want to whip somebody twice his  Foss got All his victories on the first of two Tours in the South Pacific from. September 1942 through april 1943. Shortly before he went Home to give War Bond speeches and train new pilots Boyington arrived. _ Boyington was shot Down and spent the last 20 months of the War As a prisoner. After retiring As a colonel to Burbank calif., his civilian occupations included that of wrestling referee and Beer Salesman. The religious Foss recalled visiting. Boyington shortly before his death. Quot i witnessed to him. Because i figured one of these Days he was about to be a leaving Quot Foss said. Quot he just listened. He never said anything. But i have a Hunch that he. Will be sitting up there in heaven when we come  Short subject Ernie Pyle museum gets Start on its own building by Don Kirkman Scripps Howard news service later this summer the Indiana National guard and a civilian contractor will assemble two quonset huts to preserve the memory of world War is most beloved reporter Ernie Pyle. The raising of the huts is an act of Faith a Gamble by the friends of Ernie Pyle arid the Indiana state museum that bears his name in Dana ind., a Small town 70 Miles West of Indianapolis that was Pyle s Birthplace and childhood Home. The friends group and the state owned museum have Only $200,000 of the $700,000 they need to turn the h uts into an Ernie Pyle history Center alongside his Home. A we re hoping the veterans of world War ii and their children and grandchildren will help their buddy Ernie a said museum curator Evelyn Hobson. A we want to preserve his stories about the men of world War ii for All  Pyle a front lines stories for Scripps Howard newspapers were Day by Day tributes to the soldiers sailors and airmen who bore the Brunt of the fighting in North Africa Sicily Italy France and the Pacific. His deep affection for the infantry was legendary. He took so Many risks and was nearly killed so Many times that his worried friends finally told him a Ernie go Home. You be used up your nine  but Pyle went to the Pacific for one last reporting tour. There in april 1945, he was killed by a japanese machine gunner during the okinawan Campaign. His death was announced by president Harry Truman. The current Ernie Pyle museum in his family s 1850s farmhouse is so overflowing with Pyle _ Memorabilia that the friends want to move the free of charge Ernie Faye museum into the quonset huts. The $200,000 the friends have collected will  for Concrete foundations and assembling the huts. But $500,000 is heeded to partition the huts into a movie theater a Library research room an exhibition room for Pyle artefacts and a gift Center. The theater will show the popular world War ii movie tone Story of go Joe a 1944 film inspired by Pyle a stories that has Burgess Meredith playing Pyle. The exhibit room will include a talking mannequin that recites Pyle a famous a death of Captain Waskow column. Approximately half of the already collected $200,000 has been donated by sex world War ii servicemen. A most of the Money has come in $10s, $20s and $100s from gis who really loved Ernie Quot said Hobson. One was from Paul Klapp of Watson own pa., a 77th infantry division go who was on the tiny Island near Okinawa when Ernie was killed. A Ernie was a Good buddy to the foot Soldier a he recalled in his note with a $10 Check. A i wish i could do  contributions should be sent to friends of Emie Pyle development fund . 1995,Dana. Indiana 47847-0345. Monday tuesday july 4/5, 1994 the stars and stripes