Southwest passage : the Yanks in the Pacific

Southwest passage : the Yanks in the Pacific /

At a time when few Americans had visited Australia, journalist John Lardner sailed down under with the U.S. armed forces as one of the first American war correspondents in the Pacific theater. With his excellent sense of humor and gift for narrative, Lardner penned vignettes of MacArthur's arri...

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Main Author: Lardner, John, 1912-1960
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2013
Subjects:
Lardner, John, > 1912-1960.
World War, 1939-1945 > Personal narratives, American.
World War, 1939-1945 > Pacific Area.
World War, 1939-1945 > Australia.
World War, 1939-1945 > New Guinea.
World War, 1939-1945 > Press coverage > United States.
War correspondents > United States > Biography.
Personal narratives.
Biographies.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • The unready
  • Westward (censored) ho!
  • Convoy
  • All ashore
  • The shirtsleeve Baedeker
  • The last bastion
  • MacArthur and MacArthuriana
  • Road company
  • Darwin
  • Japs, mostly dead
  • The planes we fight with
  • Dakota in the red dust
  • As the Dutchman flies
  • City life
  • Log of the firecracker
  • Port of bombs and butterflies
  • Between zeros
  • Seven deadly young men
  • Coral Sea
  • Diggers at work
  • Behind the lines
  • The Tasman bumps
  • Homeward : the odd pace
  • Glossary.

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