South Pacific Diary, 1942-1943

A unique chronicle of the war from the perspective of a sensitive twenty-four-year-old sergeant who wrote for the Army's in-house paper, Yank, the Army Weekly and a tale of the South Pacific that will not soon be forgotten. Correspondent Mack Morriss reluctantly left his diary in the Honolulu Yank office in July 1943. "Here is contained an account of the past eight and one-half months," he wrote in his last entry, "a period which I shall never forget." The next morning he was on a plane headed b

Author: Mack Morriss
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 04/25/1996
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 9.32h x 6.31w x 1.06d
ISBN: 9780813119694

About the Author

Mack Morriss, author of The Proving Ground, a novel based on his wartime experiences, died in 1975.

Ronnie Day is professor and chair of the Department of History at East Tennessee State University.

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