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.

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 ...

It will be "in with the old" instead of “out with the old” on Marietta Square this Dec. 31, when legendary Marietta-based rock band Guadalcanal Diary reforms for a New Years Eve concert at the Strand ...

GUADALCANAL DIARY—Richard Tregaskis—Random House ($2.50). This may not be the best war book of 1943—but it is thorough reporting on one of the most dramatic battles of 1942. Six-foot seven-inch, ...

U.S. Marine Joseph A. Bucci fought valiantly on Guadalcanal in World War II and then furthered the war effort as a public speaker back home in Amsterdam. Bucci was the son of Charles and Mary Bucci ...

Formed 1981, Marietta, GA, United States Disbanded 1989 // Members Jeff Walls (lead guitar), Murray Attaway (guitar, vocals), Rhett Crowe (bass), John Poe (drums) Genres Jangle Pop, Cowpunk Popular In ...

A line in Australian coast watcher Martin Clemens’ diary for Aug. 7, 1942, reads, “Oh! What a day!” On that day, Clemens saw many of the almost 19,000 U.S. Marines from 82 ships jump out of crude ...

1. The Marine landing on the obscure South Pacific island of Guadalcanal in August 1942 marked the war’s first major U.S. offensive. Richard Tregaskis, who witnessed the fighting as a reporter, ...

Making a brief appearance in this book is an airplane irreverently named “The Resurrection”, brought back from the dead at Henderson Field on Guadalcanal through combining parts from multiple wrecks ...