Douglass K. Daniel has practiced journalism and studied and written about media and history. He was a reporter and editor for the Associated Press for nearly three decades. Daniel also taught journalism as an assistant professor at Kansas State University and Ohio University. He is the author of several books, including biographies of the 60 Minutes correspondent Harry Reasoner, Oscar-winning writer and director Richard Brooks, and celebrated actress Anne Bancroft.
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Introduction 1 1 A Dangerous Publicity Campaign 7 2 In the Jungles of Guadalcanal 23 3 Somewhere in the South Pacific 45 4 Four Bloody Days on Tarawa 71 5 From New Britain to the Marshalls 97 6 Sweeping the Marianas: Saipan, Guam, and Tinian 122 7 Payback at Peleliu 149 8 Invisible Heroes: Black Marines and Sailors in the Pacific 161 9 Thirty-Six Days on Iwo Jima 182 10 Okinawa and Imperial Japan's Last Stand 202 11 Life in the Marine Corps 219 Epilogue 239 Acknowledgments 249 Notes 251 Bibliography 275 Index 279 Photos follow page 148
"Douglass K. Daniel's book offers readers a fascinating examination of World War II journalism. While there have been studies about the individual work of civilian reporters, there have been none documenting the efforts of combat correspondents drawn from the military. Daniel has plugged a gap in journalism studies with his work, especially because the dispatches he uses were 'deemed unfit for the eyes of the American public at the time they were written'" - Ray E. Boomhower, biographer of Ernie Pyle, Robert L. Sherrod, and Richard Tregaskis "This is an excellent volume. Combining a fascinating trove of stories written by Marine combat correspondents, with elegantly written essays that situate their journalism in the bigger picture, Douglass Daniel has produced a must-read book for anyone interested in either World War II or the US Marine Corps." - Steven Casey, author of ?War Beat Pacific: The American Media at War against Japan