
Indestructible
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From the knife fights and smuggling runs of his youth to his fiery days as a pioneering naval aviator, Paul Irving "Pappy" Gunn played by his own set of rules and always survived on his wits and fists. But when he fell for a conservative Southern belle, her love transformed him from a wild and reckless airman to a cunning entrepreneur whose homespun engineering brilliance helped launch one of the first airlines in Asia.
Pappy was drafted into MacArthur's air force when war came to the Philippines; and while he carried out a top-secret mission to Australia, the Japanese seized his family. Separated from his beloved wife, Polly, and their four children, Pappy reverted to his lawless ways. He carried out rescue missions with an almost suicidal desperation. Even after he was shot down twice and forced to withdraw to Australia, he waged a one-man war against his many enemies -- including the American high command and the Japanese--and fought to return to the Philippines to find his family.
Without adequate planes, supplies, or tactics, the U.S. Army Air Force suffered crushing defeats by the Japanese in the Pacific. Over the course of his three-year quest to find his family, Pappy became the renegade who changed all that. With a brace of pistols and small band of loyal fol,lowers, he robbed supply dumps, stole aircraft, invented new weapons, and modified bombers to hit harder, fly farther, and deliver more destruction than anything yet seen in the air. When Pappy's modified planes were finally unleashed during the Battle of the Bismarck Sea, the United States scored one of the most decisive victories of World War II.
Taking readers from the blistering skies of the Pacific to the jungles of New Guinea and the Philippines to one of the the war's most notorious prison camps, Indestructible traces one man's bare-knuckle journey to free the people he loved and the aerial revolution he sparked that continues to resonate across America's modern battlefields.
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Bruning is well traveled as an embedded combat correspondent. For his reporting in Afghanistan, the Department of Defense presented him with the Thomas Jefferson Award in 2010. For his work with the Oregon National Guard, he was inducted into the 162nd Infantry Regiment in September 2011 as an honorary member. John lives in Independence, Oregon, and has two children.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Table of Contents
- Dedication
- Author's Note
- Epigraph
- Maps
- Preface
- Part 1 Philippine Odyssey
- 1. The Last Normal Day
- 2. The Mysterious Traveler
- 3. Into the Storm
- 4. The Voice of Manila
- 5. The Day of Fiestas
- 6. Terror in the Night
- 7. Silver Screen Scenes
- 8. Running Toward Trouble
- 9. The Noose
- 10. The Middle-Aged Recruit
- 11. Outlaw Son of a Lawman
- 12. The Noose
- 13. American Red Baron
- 14. Refugee Allies
- 15. Routine in Chaos
- 16. Christmas Eve
- 17. The Last Broadcast
- Part 2 The Legend of Pappy Gunn
- 18. Early Legends
- 19. The Perilous Consequence of Not in Stock
- 20. Daniel Boone of the Dutch East Indies
- 21. Eighth Avenue Rules
- 22. Pappy and Miss EMF
- 23. Voiding the Warranty
- 24. Where the Weak Are Prey
- 25. Wainwright to MacArthur: Where Is Captain Gunn?
- 26. The Indomitable Luck of Pappy Gunn
- 27. The Canberra Commandos and the Numerous Troubles That Ensued
- 28. Killing von Gronau
- 29. Secrets, Spies, and Mystery Holes
- 30. Survival Versus Sin
- 31. The Death-Dealing Sweetheart with the Jack Dempsey Crouch
- 32. "The Gun-Craziest Man I Ever Met"
- 33. Bust 'Em George, the Undocumented Renegade General
- 34. Clara Crosby Comes of Age
- 35. Margaret, Pappy's Radical, Scrappy, Lethal Engine of Death
- 36. The War on Hope
- 37. Blood and Fire
- 38. Reconnections and Revolutions
- Part 3 Homeward Bound
- 39. Later Legends
- 40. Gunship Summer
- 41. Miss Priss Strikes Back
- 42. The Pinky and the Lungs
- 43. On the Tail of Custer's Ghost
- 44. The Vow of Last Resort
- 45. Pappy's Final Battle
- 46. The Sweet Georgia Peach
- 47. War Made Animals of Men
- 48. Ward Six
- Photos
- Afterword
- More Praise for "Indestructible
- Acknowledgments
- Discover More
- Bibliography
- Notes
- Copyright
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