Pacific Microphone: Volume 8: 08 (Williams-ford Texas A&m University Military History Series)

This is one of those books which can easily be overlooked - a story of a man travelling around the Far East with a microphone? But look closer, and you will see that it's a story of an early broadcasting pioneer - Bill Dunn was one of the first war correspondents to be able to set up his equipment and give a (near) daily broadcast to the waiting millions in the USA at home during the Pacific campaign of World War Two - enduring the hardships and sometimes rare moments of tranquility in a world that was anything but. It's a story of an ordinary man from Indiana, and his mission to report everything he saw, and the difficulties he faced in doing so, it's also the story of friendship and the unexpected camaraderie of one of the most charismatic generals in US Twentieth Century history. A rare gem. You won't be disappointed.

Well written first person account of the Pacific Theater of WWII. I read "Retired at 16" first and this made me want to know more. Pacific Microphone certainly fulfilled that wish. William J. Dunn had quite the amazing career as a radio reporter...and later travel and recipe sharing. I now have all of his books.

Bought for a friend but it arrived quickly and he was happy with it.