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1 online resource (xiv, 399 pages) : illustrations |
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Texas A & M University military history series ; 8 |
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Texas A & M University military history series ; 8.
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"90-day" assignment -- Douglas MacArthur -- Doubt and belief -- Gem in the tiara -- Singapore to Tokyo -- The "final" stages -- "Hitler didn't read his history" -- Shattered city -- The Burma road -- "It's impossible" -- No doubt of Japan's intentions -- Bittersweet -- Left alone -- Invaded -- Flight -- Trans-Australia -- Melbourne reunion -- A general in search of a command -- War correspondents in search of a war -- Japan threatens from New Guinea -- The Owen Stanleys -- Home -- No young veterans? -- The admiralties and the south Pacific -- Flight to nowhere -- Hollandia -- Back on Philippine soil -- Won by the second team -- Anniversaries and Ormoc -- Return to Luzon -- Pushing southward -- Prisoners of war -- "Lightning column" -- A city burns -- Farewell to a president -- Oil of the Indies -- VE Day -- At last VJ Day -- Into the Rising Sun -- Surrender -- Stars and stripes over Tokyo -- Epilogue |
| Summary |
In the famous sculpture of Gen. Douglas MacArthur's triumphant return to the Philippines in 1944, one man follows the general onto the beach wearing neither helmet nor hat. That man is a radio reporter, one of only a handful who covered the war in the Pacific for the Americans back home. That man is Bill Dunn. This is his story of that war. CBS sent reporter Dunn to the Orient nearly a year before the attack on Pearl Harbor to survey broadcast facilities for the coverage of the anticipated hostilities. In Rangoon he learned that his nation was at war. After moving to Batavia to cover the fall of the Netherlands East Indies, he escaped to Australia, where he joined MacArthur's staff for the duration. From that vantage point he covered air, land, and sea battles, campaign planning, ground combat, and the liberation of internment and POW camps. At Japan's surrender, he was dean of correspondents in the Southwest Pacific, a distinction that earned him an early entry into defeated Tokyo and a bird's-eye view of the signing of the surrender document. Based on Dunn's memories and the transcripts of his broadcasts from the field, Pacific Microphone presents the first written account of the vagaries and headaches of providing radio coverage of a war that encompassed half the globe, including vast areas where modern electronics were limited. It also offers some unique viewpoints of certain aspects of the Pacific war, the insights of a professional observer who came to know the men and women who fought that war on land, air, and sea, and, certainly, the commanding minds that provided the direction and leadership that resulted in ultimate victory. -- Amazon.com |
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Includes index |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Dunn, William J
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Dunn, William J. fast |
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Dunn, William J. swd |
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Journalists -- Biography
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, American
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Pacific Area
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
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HISTORY -- Military -- World War II.
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Journalists
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Pazifikkrieg 1941-1945
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Erlebnisbericht
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Pacific Area
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USA
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autobiographies (literary works)
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Biographies
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Personal narratives
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Autobiographies.
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Personal narratives.
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Biographies.
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Autobiographies.
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Récits personnels.
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Biographies.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0585173532 |
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9780585173535 |
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