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Tales of the South Pacific

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	Tales of the South Pacific	comment	Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Tales of the South Pacific is a 1947 short story collection and the first published work of fiction by James A. Michener.The setting is Des Moines, Iowa—no, just kidding, the South Pacific, namely the area around the Cook Islands and the Solomon Islands, in the years 1942-1944 during World War II. The nineteen stories in the collection are narrated by an unnamed "Commander" who is an avatar for James Michener, who served in Real Life as a U.S. Navy Lieutenant Commander in the New Hebrides islands. The stories are loosely connected, with several characters appearing in more than one, and also by a plot thread about American plans for a fictional "Operation Alligator" against the Japanese. The emphasis is on the long, long periods of boredom between the occasional bloody assault, and how the Americans in the south Pacific interact with the natives, other locals, and each other.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })This story collection is largely forgotten in later days, but two of the stories therein, "Fo' Dolla'" and "Our Heroine", were adapted into the much better-remembered musical South Pacific.Tales of the South Pacific is a product of the then subject of the Cyclic National Fascination (late '40s to The '60s) — the Polynesian culture and the Pacific War.
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	Tales of the South Pacific / int_f237981e	comment	The Alleged Plane: The Bouncing Belch, a derelict aircraft that Tony Fry uses to make liquor pickup/delivery runs with the help of Bus Adams and other pilots. In "Wine for the Mess at Segi," it's described as having crashed twice, barely holding together, and stripped down to the absolute minimum equipment needed for flight. It doesn't have a working compass, so Adams has to follow another plane for part of their trip in order to reach the next destination. A landing gear failure forces Adams to crash-land at the base; the plane is destroyed and Fry has to be cut out of the wreckage, but all the men — and the booze they've scrounged up — arrive intact.
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