Bastard Behind the Lines: The extraordinary story of Jock McLaren’s escape from Sandakan and his guerrilla war against the Japanese - Tom Gilling
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History
 Nonfiction
 Pacific Theater Of Operation
 World War 2
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‘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.’
Scottish-born but a Queenslander to the bone, Jock McLaren was a true Australian hero. As a prisoner he escaped twice, first from Changi and later from the infamous Sandakan POW camp in Borneo. After paddling a dugout canoe across open sea, he fought for two years with American-led Filipino guerrillas, his exploits so audacious the Japanese put a price on his head.
Scottish-born but a Queenslander to the bone, Jock McLaren was a true Australian hero. As a prisoner he escaped twice, first from Changi and later from the infamous Sandakan POW camp in Borneo. After paddling a dugout canoe across open sea, he fought for two years with American-led Filipino guerrillas, his exploits so audacious the Japanese put a price on his head.
At the helm of his 26-foot whaleboat, the Bastard, McLaren sailed brazenly into enemy-held harbours, wreaking havoc with his mortar and machine guns before heading back out to sea. In early 1945 he joined Australia’s secretive Z Special Unit, parachuting into Borneo to carry out reconnaissance and organise anti-Japanese resistance ahead of Allied landings. He cheated death on numerous occasions and saved his own life by removing his appendix without anaesthetic, using ‘two large dessert spoons’ and a razor blade.
Drawing on Allied and Japanese wartime documents, Bastard Behind the Lines brings the story of a courageous digger vividly to life and throws light on a rarely explored aspect of Australia’s Pacific war.
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This post has 7 comments with rating of 5/5
May 23rd, 2021
His operational exploits almost mirror that time I performed brain surgery on my own self with nothing but an egg whisk & a bicycle pump; all while completely unconscious, and dictating a monograph on the Second Punic War. But this isn’t a crass competition.
May 23rd, 2021
You intrigue me @caesar963
May 23rd, 2021
Hail Caesar !
May 23rd, 2021
BLAHAHAHAHA, caesar963.
By any chance are you from Yorkshire. I used to live in a corridor there.
May 23rd, 2021
Not from Yorkshire, anova, but I have it on the best authority that if it’s not from Yorkshire, it’s shyte.
May 24th, 2021
Sheer luxury, Anova. We used to live in a cardboard box in t’ middle of the road. :D
May 24th, 2021
You ‘ad a cardboard box? You’re just showing off now.
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