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Lorraine Stumm Lorraine Stumm i(8511718 works by) (a.k.a. Lorraine Palmer; Lorraine Streeter)
Born: Established: 1914 ;
Gender: Female
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1 1 y separately published work icon I Saw Too Much : A Woman Correspondent at War Lorraine Stumm , Coopernook : Write On Group , 2000 8511762 2000 single work autobiography

'At the age of 25, Lorraine Stumm went to Singapore to join her airman husband and obtained a job on the Malaya Tribune as a news reporter. War had been declared and Singapore was deemed impregnable. On the outbreak of war with Japan, she was asked by the London Daily Mirror to cover the war in the Pacific for them. Evacuated from Singapore just before it fell to the Japanese, she joined General MacArthur's headquarters and from 1941 until the surrender of Japan, she reported the war as Australia's first accredited woman war correspondent. Despite the hard conditions and discriminations from some male colleagues, she kept the news flowing. In this absorbing personal account, she writes in the same style as she reported the events and conditions she experienced and the people she met during those tumultuous years of World War II.' (Publication summary)
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