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Richard William Tregaskis (November 28, 1916 – August 15, 1973) was an American journalist and author whose best-known work is Guadalcanal Diary (1943), an account of just the first several weeks (in August - September 1942) of the U.S. Marine Corps invasion of Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands during World War II.
Aug 17, 1973 · HONOLULU, Aug. 16 (UPI) — Richard Tregaskis, veteran war correspondent and noted author, died yesterday at the age of 56, apparently a drowning victim.
Nov 16, 2021 · Richard Tregaskis is an in-depth and long-overdue portrait of a preeminent World War II correspondent, one of the few journalists to spend significant time covering both the Pacific and European theaters. If you enjoy the work we do here, we have no doubt you will enjoy this book.
Nov 29, 2021 · Richard Tregaskis was the author of a bestselling memoir in 1943 called “Guadalcanal Diary.” We find out how Richard got into the war reporting business, and where it took him during World War Two and beyond.
Nov 20, 2023 · For the American public at home in 1942, the war raging thousands of miles across oceans could seem remote and opaque. Richard Tregaskis’ Guadalcanal Diary brought the stories of the American forces engaged in brutal fighting to the homefront in a popular and vivid format.
Aug 7, 2012 · Another war correspondent giant was International News Service reporter Richard Tregaskis, who landed with the Marines on Guadalcanal on Aug. 7, 1942, and lived with them for the first two months of that campaign.
Nov 7, 2021 · For two months in the summer of 1942, Richard Tregaskis, a young correspondent with the International News Service, had toiled away in the Southwest Pacific to report on the news from a...
Guadalcanal Diary. Richard Tregaskis’s account of the first seven weeks of fighting is a classic of war literature. August 11, 2017. August 7 marked the 75th anniversary of the American landings at Guadalcanal.
Richard Tregaskis was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey, on November 28, 1916, and educated at the Pingrie Day School for Boys, Elizabeth, New Jersey, at Peddie School, Hightstonsic, New Jersey, and at Harvard University. Prior to World War II he worked as a journalist for the Boston Herald newspaper.
Richard Tregaskis (1916-1973) was an author and journalist who created the genre of war correspondence books. He dedicated his life to preserving the truth of war as it was happening. The estate of Richard Tregaskis is dedicated to publish his original classics along with previously unpublished manuscripts.
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