On August 7, 1942 war correspondent Richard Tregaskis took part in the US Marine invasion of Guadalcanal. His experiences became the basis for a book entitled Guadalcanal Diary. A year later, director ...

The diary of a Marine who recorded his first eight months of World War II in the Pacific before fighting in some of its bloodiest battles is back with his family after it surfaced 81 years later.

Jeff Walls, of ‘80s-era Atlanta college rockers Guadalcanal Diary, has died. The co-founder, guitarist and songwriter for the band – as well as garage rockers The Woggles, where he was known as Flesh ...

In the summer of 1942, during the first seven weeks of fierce fighting between U.S. Marines and the Japanese on Guadalcanal, an island in the Solomons, the Americans were watched over by a young ...

Professor Parsons’ Picks is a weekly silent auction sponsored by the Friends of A.K. Smiley Public Library. It features collectible books at a reasonable cost for the seasoned collector and the ...

If you happened to be wondering what former Guadalcanal Diary's lead singer and guitarist Murray Attaway has been up to recently, turns out he has been hard at work on a new solo album. The Athens, GA ...

To anyone unfamiliar with the Richard Tregaskis book, the picture version may or may not be a faithful adaptation [by Jerry Cady] of the original. But it is without question a painstaking, dignified ...

A colorful, first-hand account of the landing and early stages of the Marine campaign on Guadalcanal and Tulagi. Loading... Please enable JavaScript for this site to ...