M is for the Philippines island of Mindoro. At dawn on Feb. 24, 1942, a ship that snuck past Japanese blockades and escaped Bataan the night, before anchored near the Mindoro town of Pola. Among the ship's passengers were newlywed reporters Melville and Annalee Jacoby. #MelAtoZ
L is for Lingnan University. OTD (Sept. 12) in 1936, Melville Jacoby first visited Lingnan's campus — then located in Guangzhou (Canton) on what is now Sun Yat-Sen University — and began a transformative year studying in #China.
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K is for Kunming, capital of Yunnan in southern China. Melville Jacoby made these images In August, 1940, when he stopped en route to a stint freelancing for the United Press in Hanoi. #kunming #meljacoby #melAtoZ #WWII #1940s #history #adangershared
