The Last One Out: Yates McDaniel, World War II's Most Daring Reporter
The exciting story of a newspaper reporter who risked his life in Nanking, Singapore, and Manila to provide the world with riveting coverage of World War II in Asia.

When Yates McDaniel died in Florida in 1983, few outside his family paid much attention. The only hint of his fame came in a brief obituary buried on the inside pages of the New York Times. The obit suggested bravery and a past far more exciting than almost anyone knew. Even those who worked alongside him in the 1960s at the Associated Press were startled to learn what McDaniel had been, what he had done when he was a young man and the world was at war.

  • McDaniel covered more of the Asian war than anyone else—from the savage Japanese assault on Nanking in 1937 to the fall of Singapore in 1942 to landing with US Marines on New Britain in 1943.
  • He took risks no other reporter ever accepted, and colleagues joked that Japanese bombers followed him wherever he went.
  • He was the last reporter to leave Singapore before its fall to the Japanese in 1942.
  • He escaped on one of the last ships leaving Singapore, and when it was sunk by Japanese aircraft, he and 130 others had to survive on a deserted island.

Author Jack Torry spent two and a half years reading hundreds of the subject's newspaper articles, examining scores of letters written by McDaniel's parents and sister, going through personal letters he wrote during the war, and reviewing extensive interview notes in the Library of Congress.

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The Last One Out: Yates McDaniel, World War II's Most Daring Reporter
The exciting story of a newspaper reporter who risked his life in Nanking, Singapore, and Manila to provide the world with riveting coverage of World War II in Asia.

When Yates McDaniel died in Florida in 1983, few outside his family paid much attention. The only hint of his fame came in a brief obituary buried on the inside pages of the New York Times. The obit suggested bravery and a past far more exciting than almost anyone knew. Even those who worked alongside him in the 1960s at the Associated Press were startled to learn what McDaniel had been, what he had done when he was a young man and the world was at war.

  • McDaniel covered more of the Asian war than anyone else—from the savage Japanese assault on Nanking in 1937 to the fall of Singapore in 1942 to landing with US Marines on New Britain in 1943.
  • He took risks no other reporter ever accepted, and colleagues joked that Japanese bombers followed him wherever he went.
  • He was the last reporter to leave Singapore before its fall to the Japanese in 1942.
  • He escaped on one of the last ships leaving Singapore, and when it was sunk by Japanese aircraft, he and 130 others had to survive on a deserted island.

Author Jack Torry spent two and a half years reading hundreds of the subject's newspaper articles, examining scores of letters written by McDaniel's parents and sister, going through personal letters he wrote during the war, and reviewing extensive interview notes in the Library of Congress.

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The Last One Out: Yates McDaniel, World War II's Most Daring Reporter

The Last One Out: Yates McDaniel, World War II's Most Daring Reporter

by Jack Torry
The Last One Out: Yates McDaniel, World War II's Most Daring Reporter

The Last One Out: Yates McDaniel, World War II's Most Daring Reporter

by Jack Torry

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Overview

The exciting story of a newspaper reporter who risked his life in Nanking, Singapore, and Manila to provide the world with riveting coverage of World War II in Asia.

When Yates McDaniel died in Florida in 1983, few outside his family paid much attention. The only hint of his fame came in a brief obituary buried on the inside pages of the New York Times. The obit suggested bravery and a past far more exciting than almost anyone knew. Even those who worked alongside him in the 1960s at the Associated Press were startled to learn what McDaniel had been, what he had done when he was a young man and the world was at war.

  • McDaniel covered more of the Asian war than anyone else—from the savage Japanese assault on Nanking in 1937 to the fall of Singapore in 1942 to landing with US Marines on New Britain in 1943.
  • He took risks no other reporter ever accepted, and colleagues joked that Japanese bombers followed him wherever he went.
  • He was the last reporter to leave Singapore before its fall to the Japanese in 1942.
  • He escaped on one of the last ships leaving Singapore, and when it was sunk by Japanese aircraft, he and 130 others had to survive on a deserted island.

Author Jack Torry spent two and a half years reading hundreds of the subject's newspaper articles, examining scores of letters written by McDaniel's parents and sister, going through personal letters he wrote during the war, and reviewing extensive interview notes in the Library of Congress.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780764362682
Publisher: Schiffer Publishing, Ltd.
Publication date: 03/15/2022
Pages: 256
Product dimensions: 6.40(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Jack Torry is the former Washington bureau chief for the Columbus Dispatch. The Last One Out is his third book.

Table of Contents

Preface 7

Foreword 9

1 Soochow 13

2 Shanghai 23

3 Tientsin 35

4 Nanking 49

5 Hankow 59

6 Hong Kong 71

7 Singapore, 1941 83

8 Singapore, 1942 97

9 Sumatra and Java 113

10 Melbourne 123

11 Brisbane 137

12 Port Moresby 149

13 Tacloban 163

14 Manila 173

15 San Francisco and Detroit 187

16 Washington, DC 201

Epilogue The Search for Doris Lim 211

Acknowledgments 217

Endnotes 220

Bibliography 245

Index 248

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