Southwest Passage
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Southwest Passage

The Yanks in the Pacific

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Southwest Passage

The Yanks in the Pacific

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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 arrival and his reception in Melbourne and a flight with the daring Dutch flier Capt. Hans Smits. More frequently, Lardner wrote about the ordinary day and the average person. Traveling throughout the country, in Southwest Passage Lardner offers a glimpse of Australia in the 1940s and generates warmth and admiration for World War II fighters in the Pacific, whether Australian, New Zealander, aboriginal, or American.

For generations of readers who have learned about World War II with the benefit of hindsight, Lardner's tone, style, and selected topics give more than just entertaining anecdotes about the military in the Pacific; they are a view into the culture and society of midcentury America.

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Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Year
2013
ISBN
9780803253292
Topic
History
Subtopic
World War II
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright Page
  3. Contents
  4. Introduction
  5. I: The Unready
  6. II: Westward (Censored) Ho!
  7. III: Convoy
  8. IV: All Ashore
  9. V: The Shirtsleeve Baedeker: (Wartime Edition)
  10. VI: The Last Bastion
  11. VII: MacArthur and MacArthuriana
  12. VIII: Road Company
  13. IX: Darwin
  14. X: Japs, Mostly Dead
  15. XI: The Planes We Fight With
  16. XII: Dakota in the Red Dust
  17. XIII: As the Dutchman Flies
  18. XIV: City Life
  19. XV: Log of the Firecracker
  20. XVI: Port of Bombs and Butterflies
  21. XVII: Between Zeros
  22. XVIII: Seven Deadly Young Men
  23. XIX: Coral Sea
  24. XX: Diggers at Work
  25. XXI: Behind the Lines
  26. XXII: The Tasman Bumps
  27. XXIII: Homeward: the Odd Page
  28. Notes
  29. Glossary