Guadalcanal Diary

Richard William Tregaskis was an American journalist and author whose best-known work is Guadalcanal Diary , an account of just the first several weeks of the U.S. Marine Corps invasion of Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands during World War II. This was actually a six-month-long campaign.... Tregaskis served as a war correspondent during World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War. Born in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Tregaskis attended the Pingry School in Elizabeth and the Peddie School in Hightstown, New Jersey before going to college at Harvard University. Prior to World War II worked as a journalist for the Boston American Record newspaper. His family name is of Cornish origin. Shortly after the U.S. entered World War II, Tregaskis volunteered as a combat correspondent representing the International News Service. Assigned to cover the war in the Pacific, Tregaskis spent one month reporting on Marines on Guadalcanal, a pivotal campaign in the war against Japan.
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