Bastard behind the lines: the extraordinary story of Jock McLaren's escape from Sandakan and his guerrilla war against the Japanese
'The way I look at it is this...When you're behind the line and get yourself into trouble, you've got to get your bloody self out irrespective of anybody else. That's why I like it.' Jock McLaren was a true Australian hero. He escaped Singapore twice, participated in numerou...
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Zusammenfassung: | 'The way I look at it is this...When you're behind the line and get yourself into trouble, you've got to get your bloody self out irrespective of anybody else. That's why I like it.' Jock McLaren was a true Australian hero. He escaped Singapore twice, participated in numerous raids on the Japanese in small, armed coastal vessels and was so successful in his land and sea guerrilla actions to disrupt enemy operations that the Japanese eventually placed a bounty on his head. In command of a 26-foot whaleboat called The Bastard, McLaren sailed into Japanese controlled ports in broad daylight, shot up the supply vessels and piers with machine guns and mortar, then turned tail and ran. He also made many solo forays into Japanese held areas to gather intelligence for the US and Australian high commands. Eventually he was transferred to the sabotage Z Special Unit, the joint Allied Special Forces unit formed to operate behind enemy lines. But his extraordinary feats and death-defying courage went beyond his secret missions. One of the many tales told of McLaren was the removal of his own appendix without anaesthetic and with the use of a mirror and an 'ordinary knife'. Action-packed and surprising, A Bastard Between the Lines gives rich life to one of Australia's great World War II diggers |
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adam_text | CONTENTS Map viii Prologue: Cloak-and-dagger man 1 Chapter 1: Beyond the wire 7 Chapter 2: Mata-mata 142 19 Chapter 3: Wallace 34 Chapter 4: Oh, Americano, Americano! 46 Chapter 5: A sorry collection of men 61 Chapter 6: The Sandakan incident 70 Chapter 7: Permission to proceed 90 Chapter 8: Mindanao 101 Chapter 9: Playing cat and mouse 115 Chapter 10: This is it, Mac 121 Chapter 11 : Get back, you bloody hero 135 Chapter 12: Near death 147 Chapter 13: The Bastard 153 Chapter 14: The ships are on the way 162 Chapter 15: ‘You two will be in if 174 Chapter 16: Platypus 184 Chapter 17: Agas 198 Chapter 18: Semut 207 Chapter 19: No fixed address 217 Appendix 1: Others who have removed their own appendix 221 Appendix 2: One-man war’ 225 Note on sources 231 Bibliography 233 Index 239
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CONTENTS Map viii Prologue: Cloak-and-dagger man 1 Chapter 1: Beyond the wire 7 Chapter 2: Mata-mata 142 19 Chapter 3: Wallace 34 Chapter 4: Oh, Americano, Americano! 46 Chapter 5: A sorry collection of men 61 Chapter 6: The Sandakan incident 70 Chapter 7: Permission to proceed 90 Chapter 8: Mindanao 101 Chapter 9: Playing cat and mouse 115 Chapter 10: This is it, Mac 121 Chapter 11 : Get back, you bloody hero 135 Chapter 12: Near death 147 Chapter 13: The Bastard 153 Chapter 14: The ships are on the way 162 Chapter 15: ‘You two will be in if 174 Chapter 16: Platypus 184 Chapter 17: Agas 198 Chapter 18: Semut 207 Chapter 19: No fixed address 217 Appendix 1: Others who have removed their own appendix 221 Appendix 2: One-man war’ 225 Note on sources 231 Bibliography 233 Index 239 |
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