Modern-day Marines paid tribute this month at the site where their predecessors launched the first major U.S. ground offensive against Imperial Japan in World War II. Members of Marine Rotational ...
In January 1943, an Allied convoy set sail from Noumea to Guadalcanal, escorted by a cruiser Task Force 18 led by Rear ...
HONIARA, Solomon Islands – Under a blazing Pacific island sun, Secretary of State John F. Kerry on Wednesday hailed the service and sacrifices of American fighting men who repelled a six-month ...
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — After dying on a distant battlefield more than 70 years ago, a Montgomery hero is returning home. U.S. Army Air Forces Maj. Peyton S. Mathis Jr., 28, died June 5, 1944, when the ...
On a quiet ridge overlooking the blue Pacific, a squad of shirtless children charges out of the tall Kunai grass that ruffles and waves in the hot afternoon wind. Wearing nothing more than shy grins ...
ONLINE EXTRA: Guadalcanal, then and now: N.D. vets find much has changed in 50 years (Oct. 15, 1992)
The 164th Infantry Regiment took Guadalcanal by surprise in 1942. Fifty years later, Guadalcanal took the veterans by surprise. Guadalcanal isn't the same island it was 50 years ago. Until World War ...
On August 7, 1942, U.S. Marines landed on Guadalcanal and two other islands in the Solomons, in America's first Pacific offensive of World War II. The epic, six-month struggle for Guadalcanal would ...
The early months of World War II were a time of high anxiety over inexperienced personnel, critical shortages of supply, and great uncertainty as to strategy. “Defense” was the operative word of the ...
This vivid account of a week with the U.S. Marines in the Solomon Islands was written by New York Times Correspondent F. Tillman Durdin, and is reprinted by permission of the Times: Life has never a ...
In this July 18, 2107 photo, Harold Berg, right, 92, talks with a friend at Berg's home in Peoria, Ill. Berg is one of the few Marine Raiders still living who fought in the battle of Guadalcanal in ...
The Pacific, 1942: They were young men, a year removed from their stateside fraternity houses and university lecture halls. Charles "Red" Kendrick spent his 16th birthday in the shadow of Stanford’s ...
Deep in the jungle of Guadalcanal in the South Pacific are the rusting remains of a World War II-era fighter plane. Research confirms that the plane is the doomed Wildcat flown by James "Pug" ...
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