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

Yates McDaniel was 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. He covered more of the Asian war than anyone else, took risks no other reporter ever accepted, and escaped on one of the last ships leaving Singapore before its fall to the Japanese in 1942.

Format: Hardback
Length: 256 pages
Publication date: 15 April 2022
Publisher: Schiffer Publishing Ltd

He also interviewed dozens of people who knew McDaniel,including his wife,his children,and his colleagues.
Yates McDaniel, a newspaper reporter who died in Florida in 1983, was a man of great bravery and a past far more exciting than most people knew. He 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 and escaped on one of the last ships leaving Singapore, but 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. He also interviewed dozens of people who knew McDaniel, including his wife, his children, and his colleagues.

Dimension: 229 x 152 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780764362682