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Print Length: 105 pages
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Publisher: Lycaon Books (May 6, 2017)
Publication Date: May 6, 2017
Language: English
ASIN: B071YY6XB5
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Ordinary people can often turn out to be extraordinary. That description would be more than fitting for Paul Irvin “Pappy†Gunn. A mechanical genius who could rebuild anything from electric razors to airplane engines, Pappy Gunn forged his own way through life based on the natural talent he possessed.The book is easy to read, and chronologically proceeds from one anecdote to another. Known for his mechanical prowess (which was only rivaled by his ability to spin a good story), Pappy Gunn was an integral part of the war effort in the Pacific during WWII. Affectionately written by one of his former commanding officers, this book is a good sketch of Gunn’s life.The book was originally published in 1959, and thus has some dated terms and passages that some may point out as being politically incorrect in today’s world. Nothing, however, is meant to be insulting as it is nothing more than the vernacular of the day. The book is intended to educate people about a soldier who may have played a small part but certainly walked around wearing big shoes. Four stars.
When I first saw this book I could hardly wait treading. Having read other books by General Kenney, I read this one through. Pappy was a hero that I had read about growing up. General Kenney did not dwell on the mundane details of Gunn's career but gave insight to the real person. As I read through the book I could not help but notice how straightforward Kenney was in his writing. Had the book been released today it would have been ignored because of its lack of political correctness. This was a well written book about an American hero written by another American hero. I enjoyed the book immensely.
Although General Kenney has a penchant for taking credit for a host of innovations that were clearly not his, this is nonetheless a great document about one of the most interesting figures of WW II. I find Pappy Gunn to be of especial interest for two reasons. First, he was an Arkansan, with ties to most of the major Arkansas towns and cities that I have ties to. He was born and raised in Quitman, Arkansas, which is not too far from where my mother was born and raised. He has ties to Little Rock, which is where I was born and raised. When I turned ten, my grandparents took me to the Little Rock airport to have dinner with my Uncle Jimmy, who was the company pilot for a major regional corporation. After dinner, he took us to see his Beechcraft, which was the company plane (it later expanded to a small fleet of planes). He let me sit in the co-pilot's seat, which was a major thrill in itself. As I was sitting there, gawking at all the instruments, he surreptitiously closed the back door of the plane and joined me, sitting in the pilot's seat. Next thing I knew he had his headset on and starting the plane's engines! I then got my own personal trip around the city of Little Rock, which was hand's down the greatest birthday gift I was to get in my life. Now, what makes all this interesting in the context of this book is that he piloted a B-25H in the 83rd Squadron of the 12th Bombardment Group (Medium) of the Tenth Air Force. The B-25H was the plane that was made as a direct result of Pappy's consultations with North American, Inc. If the B-25G had a field modified 75mm cannon, the B-25H features a company installed 75mm to go with 8 forward-firing .50 cal machine guns. They also moved the top turret to the front of the fuselage, where it could be locked forward to give the pilot direct control of 10 .50 cal machine guns. The final version of the MItchell bomber, the B-25J, would dispense with the cannon, but would in some versions with a solid nose increase the machine guns to 14, thanks to a solid-nose with 8 .50 cal machine guns. All of these versions were a direct result of Pappy Gunn's field modifications of the B-25, which had turned it into a devastating low level attack plane whether against enemy encampments or ships or bridges. At its peak, as Kenney hints, the B-25H would see the pilot controlling 8 5-inch rockets, up to a couple of tons of bombs in some configuration (with no Plexiglas nose, the B-25H dispensed with bombardier) deployed either in skip bombing or dropping them at low level with parachutes, while other crew members would add single machine guns on each side while twin machine guns in the tail would add a final bit of damage. If you find some of the B-25 footage that can be found on Youtube of Mitchells in low level attack. It is pretty awe-inspiring and all in all pretty scary. And this was largely due to Pappy Gunn.Disclaimer: I have not read John Bruning's INDESTRUCTIBLE, but I have ordered it. I am hoping that it will rectify my major gripe with Kenney's book: the complete lack of photographs. Over and over in the book, you wish there was a photo as you read the text. What did the modification's look like immediately after Pappy finished with them? What did the major characters in the book look like? Are there any extant photos of Pappy's visit to Hollywood? Of his visit to talk to the North American, Inc.? Of what he looked like after his injury? Or other photos like the one on the dustjacket. Despite all this, and despite the publication of John Bruning's book, this is a book well worth reading if you are interested in either the war in the Pacific or in the aerial war in WW II.
Two of my world war two heros one writing about the other. Legends were written about"Pappy" Gunn how he modified aircraft to make bombers into fighters, the other General Kenny who had the smarts to let him do it and forget about red tape. It had a bitter sweet ending, but that's how life seems to be most times.
Leo Tolstoy's "War and Peace" is, among many other things, an essay on military history with the thesis that the commanders think they're running the show but really it is the determination and sacrifice of the masses that decides the issue. There's a case to be made for the importance of commanders, but in this saga we see a lot of what Tolstoy must have seen to get him to his conclusion. Some nobody from nowhere comes up with the very effective modification to the B25 of mounting a bunch of heavy machine guns in the nose so it can strafe. (Mr. Gunn). There's more he did; without thousands of heroically effective such men things would have gone very differently. But in this book there's also the human side of war, and of life. You'll laugh at his tall tales (landing a seaplane on the wake of a whale when the water itself was too choppy, etc.). You'll cry at the stoic heroism of his family, interned by the Japanese in the Philippines and sheltered by the cover story that he was a civilian pilot and had been killed in the first days of the war, and how word reached them that he remained alive.
If you want a formal biography of Paul "Pappy" Gunn, this is not it. I'd heard about Pappy reading about his modifications to the B-25 bomber during WW2 Pacific theater, so was curious to learn more. This is called an "affectionate biography" as told by his former boss George Kenney.Pappy was a colorful, energetic and creative mechanical genius when it came to aircraft of all sorts. The whale stories (in one case, literally) told by Pappy are re-told here by the author. It's colorful, painting a great picture of a great patriot, but it's short, dated (1st published in 1959) but nevertheless, does entertain.
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