LEADER 03194nam 2200637 450 001 9910787781303321 005 20230803031825.0 010 $a0-8032-5329-X 035 $a(CKB)2670000000491202 035 $a(EBL)1578661 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001061707 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12461760 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001061707 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11099514 035 $a(PQKB)10254702 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1578661 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000491202 100 $a20181005h20131943 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aSouthwest passage $ethe Yanks in the Pacific /$fJohn Lardner ; introduction by Alex Belth 210 1$aLincoln ;$aLondon :$cUniversity of Nebraska Press,$d2013. 210 4$dİ1943 215 $a1 online resource (294 p.) 300 $aOriginally published: Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott Company, 1943. 311 $a0-8032-4098-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $aTitle Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Introduction; I: The Unready; II: Westward (Censored) Ho!; III: Convoy; IV: All Ashore; V: The Shirtsleeve Baedeker: (Wartime Edition); VI: The Last Bastion; VII: MacArthur and MacArthuriana; VIII: Road Company; IX: Darwin; X: Japs, Mostly Dead; XI: The Planes We Fight With; XII: Dakota in the Red Dust; XIII: As the Dutchman Flies; XIV: City Life; XV: Log of the Firecracker; XVI: Port of Bombs and Butterflies; XVII: Between Zeros; XVIII: Seven Deadly Young Men; XIX: Coral Sea; XX: Diggers at Work; XXI: Behind the Lines; XXII: The Tasman Bumps 327 $aXXIII: Homeward: the Odd PageNotes; Glossary 330 $aAt 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 war 606 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$vPersonal narratives, American 606 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$zPacific Area 606 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$zAustralia 606 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$zNew Guinea 606 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$xPress coverage$zUnited States 606 $aWar correspondents$zUnited States$vBiography 615 0$aWorld War, 1939-1945 615 0$aWorld War, 1939-1945 615 0$aWorld War, 1939-1945 615 0$aWorld War, 1939-1945 615 0$aWorld War, 1939-1945$xPress coverage 615 0$aWar correspondents 676 $a940.54 676 $a940.5426 700 $aLardner$b John$f1912-1960,$01487431 702 $aBelth$b Alex 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910787781303321 996 $aSouthwest passage$93707287 997 $aUNINA