USA / Philippines: A smiling 'Pappy Gunn' (Colonel Paul Irvine) with his family recuperating from wounds from a white phosporous bomb dropped on the airfield at Tacloban, during the liberation of the Philippines, late 1945

Colonel Paul Irvin 'Pappy' Gunn (October 18, 1899 – October 11, 1957) was a United States naval aviator known mainly for his actions in the Second World War as an officer in the United States Army Air Forces.

He was known as an expert in dare-devil low-level flying, and recognized for numerous feats of heroism and mechanical ingenuity, especially modifications to the Douglas A-20 Havoc light bomber and B-25 Mitchell medium bomber that turned them into attack aircraft.

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