An officer in MacArthur's court : the memoir of the first Headquarters Commandant for General Douglas MacArthur in Australia : World War II, November 1941 - August 1945 : a 39-month wartime odyssey through the Southwest Pacific Area from San Francisco through Java, Australia, New Guinea, and the Philippines : based on the true diary, letters, and oral history of Col. John F. Day Jr., USA /

First Lieutenant John F. Day Jr. was a 30-year-old Reserve Army Officer when he was called to active duty in November 1940. On December 7, 1941, Day found himself aboard a troop ship in the mid-Pacific in route to the Philippine Islands. The USS Republic, a ship in the Pensacola Convoy, was eight-da...

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