I remember an episode where Boyington and Harachi shot each other down and ended up on the same tiny island. Boyington asked "You got rice wine?" Harachi nodded and asked "You got American chocolate?" Boyington nodded and they had sake and Hershey bars.
Not correct……Boyington did have American chocolate because he did share it with Harachi but Harachi didn’t have any rice wine because when Boynton asked him Harachi basically blew him off just after they met up at the beach
Byron Chung was absolutely perfect for the part of Hirachi! Nice comic relief too! Loved it how they became friendly enemies after shooting each other down.
Yes, but I don't appreciate HIrachi being called "Riceball." His skills as a top ace were apparent. That shows a lack of respect on Boyington's part. Hirachi might as well have called Boyington, "Hey, lush!" Would have been the same type of insult.
So what? So what is enemies treating one another with respect. In this particular episode of Black Sheep, Hirachi and Boyington shoot each other down. They meet, and an uneasy truce comes about. But it is Hirachi, not Boyington, who initiates the truce by offering his cigarette to Boyington to smoke it with him. THAT is an enemy showing respect. Can you say the same thing about Boyington calling Hirachi "Riceball?" Their skills as pilots are equal. And Boyington knows it. It is not very often he meets someone who is as skilled as he is, and he could show Hirachi some respect here. @@Richard-lu8ck
Isn't this just so great? Remember when a close-up shot of a cockpit was enough to sell someone flying a plane on TV? No need for all sorts of special effects, just a good story and some imagination.
This show didn't have the budget for fancy special effects. At any rate, most of the special effects that we expect today simply didn't exist in the 1970s. The technology didn't exist. That said, shows like this one were much more entertaining than the lame ones we have today, CGI notwithstanding. Even WITH all the high tech graphics and such, the modern shows can't compare to this one.
I’d like to see an episode where Boyington and Hirachi crash land on an island, and Hirachi ends up as a cook for a comical group of PT Boat sailors under command of Boyingtons old friend, Cdr McHale.
ahhhhh....man...watched the show as a kid. Now I'm an aviator myself. That's the romance of pilots. No sides. No politics. There's no king of the sky. Just a kingdom to share among those who have wings.
Flight is inherently dangerous. Those that choose that path are of special breed yet are even more aware of life itself. Life is not selfish nor frivolous but measured in deed and shared by the one you call brother.
That's awesome. I had the Revell Corsair and a Texan that I tried to make look like a Zero. I'm not real good at stuff that involves small plastic parts and glue but I sure had fun building them
@@TasteTheRad1um that's cool, Dragon models makes a 1/48 scale Zero kit. That's the one I have hanging in my shop. It's a good kit only it does not have a pilot figure so I have it as the zero has been shot down by the Corsair and it's pilot has bailed out.
@@TasteTheRad1um There is a double meaning, as the Japanese white flag with the large red circle and the red-circle wing insignia were sarcastically called "meatballs" by Americans.
@@TasteTheRad1um There is a double meaning, as the Japanese white flag with the large red circle and the red circle wing insignia of their planes were sarcastically called "meatballs" by Americans.
He was based on Saburō Sakai who shot down plenty of US aircraft during the Guadalcanal campaign. Boyington commanded the Black Sheep over a year later in the Bougainvillea campaign.
@@editorcj Well, Sakai was much more modest than that. Pretty amazing, given that he got hit in the face over Guadalcanal and flew nearly 4 hours and 500 nautical miles back to base while wounded and nearly blind.
Harachi - a bad translation of the Spanish word for sandals. And they used a Korean actor to portray the Japanese ace? Fun show but nothing near reality.
Huaraches, LOL! It was Hirachi in the original script. Somehow it morphed into Harachi (which in Japan is a place name, not a person's). A Korean in the IJN is entirely plausible, since Korea was a Japanese territory at the time.
