To anyone unfamiliar with the Richard Tregaskis book, the picture version may or may not be a faithful adaptation [by Jerry Cady] of the original. But it is without question a painstaking, dignified ...

600,000 square miles. Nowhere to hide.

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 ...

Madame Curie (Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon; TIME, Dec. 20). Happy Land (Don Ameche, Henry Morgan, Harry Carey; TIME, Dec. 13). Guadalcanal Diary (William Bendix ...

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Based on the best-selling book by Richard Tregaskis, this 1943 war epic tells the real story of U.S. forces advancing on Guadalcanal in World War II. Lewis Seiler directed. The Reader is free.

A colorful, first-hand account of the landing and early stages of the Marine campaign on Guadalcanal and Tulagi. Loading... Please enable JavaScript for this site to ...