Lieutenant Colonel Richard Mangrum, USMC (1906 – 1985), was a seasoned member of “the Cactus Air Force” that fought the good fight from Henderson Field on Guadalcanal in 1942. He penned this article shortly after the campaign for that island was won and tells of the daily life and hardships that Marine aviators had to endure.
Despite the title of the article, it has nothing to do with the memoir GUADALCANAL DIARY by Richard Tregaskis – which you can be read about here…
Four years after the Pearl Harbor attack, a Japanese newspaper editorial expressed deep regret for Japan’s aggressiveness in the Second World War, click here to read about it…
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