Porky Baycann

Porky Baycann is the companion to Tank Gunner's immensely popular WWII historical fiction novel, Palomino. Many of the characters Tank's readers came to love & hate in Palomino – Twig Chestnutt with his German POWs, Teresa & Tina Chestnutt, Mayor Shipp, Major Monroe, Preacher Adams, Miss Ruby, Waldo, Pinky & Patsy, & Eliot Thurgood – appear in the young life of Porky during the summer of 1943. Gene Autry invites Porky to eat a hamburger in Jeeps Cafe where the singing cowboy offers friendship & plants the seed for the boy to become a Boy Scout. A letter from the Army tells Porky's momma his daddy is missing in action & they become desperate to learn more. While picking cotton in Major Monroe's field, Preacher Adams introduces his young nephew, T J, to Porky & they become fast friends. Anxious for T J to join him as a Scout, Porky discovers it is not to be. Porky defends T J in a frightening encounter with Eliot in a cotton gin. Sally Edmonds loves Porky & hopes to become his girlfriend. Porky discovers dark goings-on in Palomino.

Porky Baycann is the companion to Tank Gunner's immensely popular WWII historical fiction novel, Palomino. Many of the characters Tank's readers came to love & hate in Palomino – Twig Chestnutt with his German POWs, Teresa & Tina Chestnutt, Mayor Shipp, Major Monroe, Preacher Adams, Miss Ruby, Waldo, Pinky & Patsy, & Eliot Thurgood – appear in the young life of Porky during the summer of 1943. Gene Autry invites Porky to eat a hamburger in Jeeps Cafe where the singing cowboy offers friendship & plants the seed for the boy to become a Boy Scout. A letter from the Army tells Porky's momma his daddy is missing in action & they become desperate to learn more. While picking cotton in Major Monroe's field, Preacher Adams introduces his young nephew, T J, to Porky & they become fast friends. Anxious for T J to join him as a Scout, Porky discovers it is not to be. Porky defends T J in a frightening encounter with Eliot in a cotton gin. Sally Edmonds loves Porky & hopes to become his girlfriend. Porky discovers dark goings-on in Palomino.

Tank Gunner is the pen name of a retired combat cavalry trooper, Senior Parachutist, & Jumpmaster awarded a Combat Infantry Badge & decorated with a Silver Star, three Bronze Stars, one for Valor, & a Purple Heart. He served his nation with pride & honor for more than a quarter century as an enlisted soldier & officer. An award-winning author, Tank wrote & published Prompts a collection of stories at age 76, Prompts Too another collection of stories at 77, Cookie Johnson, his Vietnam historical fiction novel at 78, his WWII historical fiction novel Palomino at 79, & Porky Baycann at 80. He & his wife live with Toby, 100 miles southwest of Palomino.