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IndestructibleJohn R. Bruning

Indestructible

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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…

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5 editions
  • Audiobook · English · 2016
    Blackstone Pub · 9781478942382
  • Other · English · 2017
    Little, Brown Book Group Limited · 560 pages · 9780316339414
  • Other · English · 2016
    Hachette Books · 9780316339391
  • Other · English · 2016
    Hachette Books · 523 pages · 9780316339407
  • Other · English · 2016
    Hachette Books · 768 pages · 9780316464307
Prisoners of warHistoryFamilyMilitary AeronauticsOfficials and employeesPhilippine AirlinesAir pilotsAmerican Aerial operations