![]() Even though he served in Europe and Bissinger’s subject is the Pacific theater, I couldn’t help thinking of Johnny - and what he may have survived and witnessed - while reading Bissinger’s stories of young men and their small towns and the horrors of war. I picked up Buzz Bissinger’s new book, “The Mosquito Bowl,” days after my yearly meeting with Johnny. “It’s getting out of hand.”) The only significant time he has spent away from his hometown was during World War II, when he flew some 50 missions in a P-38 for the Army Air Forces and earned the Distinguished Flying Cross. ![]() (“I hope this thing dies out,” he told a reporter, tiring of all the attention. (population 11,000), his whole life, and once caused a stir when he made a hole in one at the Camden Country Club - at the age of 91. At our annual meeting, Johnny is always cheerful and self-deprecating and admittedly, at 97, a little hard of hearing. ![]() I serve on the board of directors of a small company in south Arkansas with a man named John Gaughan Jr. THE MOSQUITO BOWL: A Game of Life and Death in World War II, by Buzz Bissinger ![]()
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