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Table of contents :
Dedication
Author’s Note
Epigraph
Maps

Preface

Part 1 Philippine Odyssey
1. The Last Normal Day
2. The Mysterious Traveler
3. Into the Storm
4. The Voice of Manila
5. The Day of Fiestas
6. Terror in the Night
7. Silver Screen Scenes
8. Running Toward Trouble
9. The Middle-Aged Recruit
10. Outlaw Son of a Lawman
11. The Noose
12. American Red Baron
13. Refugee Allies
14. Routine in Chaos
15. Christmas Eve
16. The Last Broadcast

Part 2 The Legend of Pappy Gunn
17. Early Legends
18. The Perilous Consequence of Not in Stock
19. Daniel Boone of the Dutch East Indies
20. Eighth Avenue Rules
21. Pappy and Miss EMF
22. Voiding the Warranty
23. Where the Weak Are Prey
24. Wainwright to MacArthur: Where Is Captain Gunn?
25. The Indomitable Luck of Pappy Gunn
26. The Canberra Commandos and the Numerous Troubles That Ensued
27. Killing von Gronau
28. Secrets, Spies, and Mystery Holes
29. Survival Versus Sin
30. The Death-Dealing Sweetheart with the Jack Dempsey Crouch
31. “The Gun-Craziest Man I Ever Met”
32. Bust ’Em George, the Undocumented Renegade General
33. Clara Crosby Comes of Age
34. Margaret, Pappy’s Radical, Scrappy, Lethal Engine of Death
35. The War on Hope
36. Blood and Fire
37. Reconnections and Revolutions

Part 3 Homeward Bound
38. Later Legends
39. Gunship Summer
40. Miss Priss Strikes Back
41. The Pinky and the Lungs
42. On the Tail of Custer’s Ghost
43. The Vow of Last Resort
44. Pappy’s Final Battle
45. The Sweet Georgia Peach
46. War Made Animals of Men
47. Ward Six

Photos
Afterword
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
Notes
Newsletters
Copyright

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