Robert Miller - The Men At Guadalcanal

Soldiers of the press. He has been on raids with Marine Colonel Meriday Edson. He has been shelled by destroyers, cruisers, and submarines. He has endured with the rest of us our daily bombing raids. He has lived a Marine's life under jungle conditions.

Robert C. Miller is a good Marine. That is a Marine's tribute to a newspaper man. They are the words of Major General Alexander A. Vandergriff, commander of U.S. Marine forces at Guadalcanal. Robert C. Miller, soldier of the press, is a United Press War correspondent, accredited to the United States Pacific Fleet, disregarding all personal risks Miller accompanied American

forces which launched the first great Allied offensive in the Pacific. He landed with him on the hostile beach of Guadalcanal early last August, and ignoring warnings of grave danger and recommendations that he withdraw chose to remain there during the first six better weeks of U.S. occupation of those inhospitable islands. We recreate for you his

story of the adventure, the action, the heroism that lie behind the official communiques, as Miller recorded it for United Press in his Guadalcanal notebook. Yes, I'm a war correspondent. Six months ago I was working in the Los Angeles Bureau of United Press where I got my assignments neatly written out on a slip of paper, or

from a UP Bureau Manager who would tell me, grab yourself a cab and beat it over to 20th and Pine Streets. Some dame has barricaded herself in her apartment and is threatening to shoot the cops.

With the correspondent assigned to the fleet, it's different. You never know where you're going or what your story will be. In fact, you may accept a three-week assignment with a task force. You come back with nothing to show for it but a pair of sea legs.