He joined the Marines at 16, served as a Raider, and fought at Iwo Jima and Guadalcanal in World War II. Now, he just wants ...

The Guadalcanal campaign was one of the Pacific War’s most grueling and prolonged battles, costing both the United States and ...

Amidst the dark waters of Guadalcanal in World War 2, the USS Helena’s silhouette was illuminated by the occasional flare of ...

A 1942 aerial map that had previously gone unnoticed and unused in a Hawaiian museum archive held the key to locating Rowe ...

The Guadalcanal campaign, which began August 7, 1942 and didn’t end until February 9, 1943, was the first major Allied offensive against Japanese forces in the Pacific.

Guadalcanal, according to David Kennedy, Stanford University`s on-board history professor, was one of four pivitol points in the Pacific war after Pearl Harbor, ...

U.S. Marines rest in a field on Guadalcanal, circa August-December 1942. Most of these Marines are armed with M1903 bolt-action rifles and carry M1905 bayonets and USMC 1941 type packs.

Guadalcanal constitutes its southeastern terminus, while the Japanese fortress at Rabaul lay just beyond its northwestern terminus in yesteryear. The Solomons commands little intrinsic value apart ...

U.S. Army Air Forces Maj. Peyton S. Mathis Jr., 28, died June 5, 1944, when the P-38J Lightning fighter plane he was piloting crashed in the jungle on Guadalcanal, said Sgt. 1st Class Shelia L ...

MONROE — A group of World War II veterans are convening today in Washington, D.C., on the 70th anniversary of the start of the Battle of Guadalcanal. They plan to tour the national memorial that ...

Asia; Americans Return to Guadalcanal, This Time to Face Beijing Marines join Australian tour of island states to shore up alliances as China’s influence grows ...