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Carregando... The Saga of Pappy Gunn (edição: 2017)de George C. Kenney (Autor)
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Interesting story about a very colorful and outspoken flyer during WW2. Written by his commanding general who knew him well. Pappy Gunn was a US Navy enlisted pilot that ended his career as a bird colonel i n the Air Force. Responsible for many successful modifications to warplanes during the Pacific Campaign. One the most successful was mounting multiple 50 caliber machine guns in the nose of te B 25 Mitchell which turned it into an incredibly powerful ground attack plane. ( ) sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
FOUR-STAR GENERAL KENNEY pays a remarkable tribute to a remarkable man in this biography. Colonel Paul Irwin ("Pappy") Gunn met a tragic death in an airplane accident in the Philippines on October 11, 1957. Believing that our country owes a debt to a great character, a superb aviator, and a devoted American that has never been paid, General Kenney has written this story in the hope that it will help discharge a part of that debt. General Kenney's own words serve better than any others to describe this book: "This is the story of an extraordinary character. He was one of the great heroes of the Southwest Pacific in World War II, a mechanical genius, and one of the finest storytellers I have ever known. His deeds were real. His stories were often fantasies but they will be told and retold as long as any of his comrades-in-arms are still alive and then will be handed down to succeeding generations of airmen. Pappy Gunn is already a legendary figure." The saga of Pappy Gunn contains a wealth of stories, Spectacular things happened to this spectacular person....As the author points out, "He lived, died, and was even buried differently from other people." Faithfully, but with humor and warmth and understanding, General Kenney has constructed the life story, the saga, of his friend, Pappy Gunn. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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