Oral history with Dr. Jack Winton Gunn

              Oral history with Dr. Jack Winton Gunn
F341.5 . M57 vol. 748, pt. 1
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Biography
Jack Winton Gunn was born January 14, 1916, in Waco, Texas. His parents were Jefferson Lonzo Gunn and Ludista Nelvina Little. His mother died in 1924, and his father remarried in 1925.
Jack Gunn attended school in Waco, Texas, and was graduated from Baylor University in 1940, majoring in History. For a brief time, he worked in Tyler, Texas, and got a private pilot's license. In 1941 he entered the Air Force, graduating as a second lieutenant in May of 1942. He was assigned to Roswell, New Mexico, and he returned to Waco to marry Margaret Ellen Holt.
Later, serving as a reconnaissance pilot, Dr. Gunn was sent to the Philippines. On his return to the United States in 1945, he went to Austin, Texas, for graduate work at the University of Texas. In 1953 he obtained a Ph. D. and was promptly recalled to the Air Force for the Korean War. He was released as a lieutenant colonel.
Following the Korean War, Dr. Gunn taught at Mississippi College in Clinton, Mississippi, at Houston Baptist College in Texas, and served as dean at Delta State University. In 1981 he retired and continues to live in Cleveland, Mississippi. He is the father of two children, Marsha Lavin and Steve Gunn.
Table of Contents
I. Childhood
II. Business school
III. Baylor University
IV. United States Air Force
V. AT- 17s
VI. P- 38s
VII. The Asiatic Theater of World War II
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