Travel Thursday!
If you’ve figured out what my theme this week is, you’re probably wondering: how do military history and military heroism fit in with travel?
Answer: This is an episode of a documentary series called “True Adventure”, which according to the YouTube notes, ran in the 1950s and 1960s.
This episode is “Return to Guadalcanal”. One of the men in this video, Martin Clemens, was on Guadalcanal when Japan invaded: instead of evacuating, he stayed behind and became a coast watcher. He later wrote a book, Alone on Guadalcanal: A Coastwatcher’s Story (which is available in reprint and Kindle editions from Amazon).
Bonus: from the Kadena Air Base channel, members of the 18th Wing tour Iwo Jima.