Bradlee Heading for “The Slot”

We’re not usually in the business of teasing a travel story that hasn’t been written yet, but this looks like it will be a good one. According to Editor and Publisher, Ben Bradlee, the Washington Post editor who stood with Woodward and Bernstein during the Watergate saga, has been commissioned by the New Yorker to write a story about cruising with his son, Quinn, through the South Pacific waters where he fought during World War II.

The last time Ben Bradlee was cruising through the islands near Guadalcanal in the South Pacific was in 1943, aboard a U.S. Navy destroyer. Enduring some of the worst combat of World War II, the Navy spent months battling through the waterway known as “The Slot.”

“It was where cruisers and destroyers met up with the Japanese and played bang-bang at night,” Bradlee describes it today.

Bradlee also tells E&P’s Joe Strupp that, at 84, he still travels regularly.

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