South Pacific Diary, 1942-1943

By Mack Morriss

Book Overview

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

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813119693
• ISBN13: 9780813119694
• Release Date: April 1996
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher