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Guadalcanal diary begins on Sunday, July 26, 1942, with the author on board one of the transports in the first expedition to some unknown destination which later proved to be the Solomon Islands in the Pacific Ocean. It ends on September 26, 1942, with the author on some "unmentionable" is...

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Published inThe Far Eastern Quarterly (pre-1986) Vol. 3; no. 1; p. 89
Main Author Meyer, Jacob C
Format Book Review
LanguageEnglish
Published Ann Arbor Duke University Press, NC & IL 01.11.1943
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New York
Guadalcanal
United States > US
Texas
Pacific Ocean
Pennsylvania
Nebraska
Solomon Islands
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Summary:Guadalcanal diary begins on Sunday, July 26, 1942, with the author on board one of the transports in the first expedition to some unknown destination which later proved to be the Solomon Islands in the Pacific Ocean. It ends on September 26, 1942, with the author on some "unmentionable" island in the same ocean. The reader gets the impression that the diarist wrote his observations day by day and let them stand as the record even when he obtained new evidence to contradict what he had written. In such cases he simply added the new information in the record for the day on which it had...
ISSN:0363-6917
2326-3067