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"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"--
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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, biographyPeople
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Indestructible: One Man's Rescue Mission That Changed the Course of WWII
2017, Little, Brown Book Group Limited
in English
0316339415 9780316339414
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Indestructible: one man's rescue mission that changed the course of WWII
2016
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0316339407 9780316339407
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Indestructible: One Man's Rescue Mission That Changed the Course of WWII
2016, Hachette Books
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0316464309 9780316464307
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Indestructible: One Man's Rescue Mission That Changed the Course of WWII
2016, Hachette Books
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0316339393 9780316339391
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Indestructible: One Man's Rescue Mission That Changed the Course of WWII, Includes PDF of Maps & Photos - Library Edition
Oct 11, 2016, Blackstone Pub
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147894238X 9781478942382
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