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Ray E. Boomhower
Episode 2801 of the Vietnam Veteran News Podcast will feature a story about Andy Pham’s interview with Ray Boomhower author of Richard Tregaskis – Reporting Under Fire from Guadalcanal to Vietnam. Ray E. Boomhower is a senior editor at the Indiana Historical Society Press. He is also the author of more than a dozen books, including The Ultimate Protest: Malcolm W. Browne, Thich Quang Duc, and the News Photograph That Stunned the World (UNM Press).
Boomhower recently published a book about Richard Tregaskis, He was a war correspondent who reported on World War II, Korea and Vietnam. Tregaskis was one of the few news correspondents who reported on the Vietnam War that believed in what we were doing there to prevent the spread of communism.
The review of the book stated: In the late summer of 1942, more than ten thousand members of the First Marine Division held a tenuous toehold on the Pacific island of Guadalcanal. As American marines battled Japanese forces for control of the island, they were joined by war correspondent Richard Tregaskis. Tregaskis was one of only two civilian reporters to land and stay with the marines, and in his notebook he captured the daily and nightly terrors faced by American forces in one of World War II’s most legendary battles—and it served as the premise for his bestselling book, Guadalcanal Diary.
One of the most distinguished combat reporters to cover World War II, Tregaskis later reported on Cold War conflicts in Korea and Vietnam. In 1964 the Overseas Press Club recognized his first-person reporting under hazardous circumstances by awarding him its George Polk Award for his book Vietnam Diary. Boomhower’s riveting book is the first to tell Tregaskis’s gripping life story, concentrating on his intrepid reporting experiences during World War II and his fascination with war and its effect on the men who fought it.
Listen to episode 2801 and discover more about Andy Pham’s interview with Ray Boomhower author of Richard Tregaskis – Reporting Under Fire from Guadalcanal to Vietnam.
