BASED ON A TRUE STORY In 1946, a letter-to-the-editor appeared in the USMC Leatherneck Magazine asking if other Marines recalled the "Mad Ghoul" on the island of Pavuvu, 65 miles off the coast of Guadalcanal in the Solomon Sea. The subscriber was attacked, as were others who responded in later 1946 issues to his query. The attacks were true events, holding 16,000 Marines of the 1st and 3rd Divisions "hostage"...