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b'\\ufeff\\n\\n\\xa0\\n\\nAugust 8, 2022 - In the late summer of 1942, the First Marine Division sought to wrest Guadalcanal from the Japanese Empire. We\\u2019ll meet one of only two reporters on hand to record the carnage, as the spot in the Pacific earned its nickname, the Island of Death.\\n\\nIn this episode, our time machine travels back war zones to meet in intrepid journalist who told soldiers\\u2019 stories to the folks back home. Our guide on this journey is Ray E. Boomhower, a senior editor at the Indiana Historical Society Press, biographer, and former reporter, who brings us Richard Tregaskis: Reporting under Fire from Guadalcanal to Vietnam.\\n\\nFor more, visit RayBoomhower.Blogspot.com and @RayBoomhower on Twitter.\\n\\nSpecial thanks to Deborah A. Cohen for submitting a video question for this interview. In the History Author Show archives, you can watch or listen to our conversation about her book Last Call at the Hotel Imperial: The Reporters Who Took on a World at War.'