. "Richard William Tregaskis (November 28, 1916 \u2013 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. 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."@en . "1973Z"^^ . "1916Z"^^ . "Tregaskis, Richard"@en . "Tregaskis, Richard William (full name)"@en . "1916-11-28Z"^^ . "1973-08-15Z"^^ . . "American journalist" .