Title: Indestructible
Description: "This little-known WWII story introduces a renegade pilot whose personal mission to rescue his family from a POW camp changed modern air warfare forever. December 1941: Manila is invaded, and US citizen and Philippine Airlines manager, Pappy Gunn, is ordered to fly key military command out of the country, leaving his family at home. So Gunn was miles away when the Japanese captured his wife and children, placing them in an internment camp where they faced disease, abuse, and starvation. Gunn spent three years trying to rescue them. His exploits became legend as he revolutionized the art of air warfare, devising his own weaponry, missions, and combat strategies. By the end of the war, Pappy's ingenuity and flair for innovation helped transform MacArthur's air force into the scourge of the Pacific"--
Subjects: Prisoners of war, History, Family, Military Aeronautics, Officials and employees, Philippine Airlines, Air pilots, American Aerial operations, World War, 1939-1945, Americans, Technological innovations, Rescues, Biography, Japanese Prisoners and prisons, Gunn, paul irvin, 1900-1957, Santo tomas internment camp (manila, philippines), World war, 1939-1945, prisoners and prisons, japanese, World war, 1939-1945, aerial operations, american, Aeronautics, military, Air pilots, biography
Places: United States, Philippines
People: Paul Irvin Gunn (1899-1957)
Time periods: 20th century