This journalist's "diary" from Richard Tregaskis was a firsthand account of WWII in the Pacific
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Richard Tregaskis (best known as the author of "Guadalcanal Diary," part of ... a 
moving account by Evan Wylie of Pyle's death on the Pacific island of Ie... [DOC] [TLE] Compulsively Aimless: June 2011 [PAR] Jun 5, 2011 ... Guadalcanal Diary, Richard Tregaskis (1943).