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who broke the news, bribing a crew member of the Oahu to send his story in. In what David Askew characterizes as "one of the best journalistic accounts of the fall of Nanking", Durdin reported all the major issues of the Nanjing incident: the murder of civilians, the execution of Chinese soldiers,
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s editorial board from 1961 to 1941. Durdin was then a correspondent in Australia and the southwestern Pacific area until 1967, wrote about the unrest in East Pakistan (now
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in 1937 as a foreign correspondent in Asia, Africa and Europe. He served in that position until 1961, covering the Chinese Civil War, combat during
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provided a gripping account of the events of what came to be known as the "February 28 incident", the start of 40 years of
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housed in the Mandeville Special Collections Library, Geisel Library, University of California, San Diego
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Together with his wife Peggy, Durdin was one of the few Western reporters to write about the
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on December 15, 1937. Durdin's report was one of the first printed accounts of the
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The Register of Frank Tillman Durdin Papers 1937–1974
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Index

The New York Times
Second Sino-Japanese War
People's Republic of China
Elkhart, Texas
Texas Christian University
World War II in the Pacific
French-Indochina War
Bangladesh
Nanjing in 1937 when it fell
Imperial Japanese Army
USS Oahu
Nanjing Massacre
Archibald Steele
Chicago Daily News
February 28 massacre
Taiwan
The Nation
martial law in Taiwan
The New York Times Report from Red China
ISBN
0-8129-0342-0
"Online Archive of California - Frank Tillman Durdin Papers"


"Tillman Durdin, 91, Reporter In China During World War II"
The New York Times
"World: Life On Guadalcanal"
Time
"The International Committee for the Nanking Safety Zone: An Introduction"
"In Memoriam: F. Tillman Durdin"

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