William Edward Gise was born on Feb. 23, 1912, in Los Angeles. After completing high school, he attended the University of ...

Flickr/Photograph Curator U-505 Submarine The German submarine crew thought they were about to die. Their U-boat was sinking, ...

After surviving POW camps, Guadalcanal and the Bataan Death March, Fargo’s Dobervich brothers came home to make the town’s ...

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

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 Japan dearly. Though seemingly minor, the island held critical strategic ...

WWII Marine Cpl. Frank S. Wright's 100th birthday wish is to receive 100,000 postcards or birthday cards. Here's where you ...

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

If you happened to be wondering what former Guadalcanal Diary’s lead singer and guitarist Murray Attaway has been up to recently, turns out he has been hard at work on a new solo album. The ...

Murray Attaway of Guadalcanal Diary plays Decatur on May 8 and Athens on May 17 behind a new solo album, his first in more than three decades, "Tense Music Plays." ...

Staff Sgt. Stephon Smith carries what are believed to be the remains of a fallen Marine killed in 1942 during the Battle of Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands during a repatriation ceremony at ...

The American landing on Guadalcanal on Aug. 7, 1942 and subsequent seizure of the airbase they would name Henderson Field marked the first American offensive in the wake of the Dec. 7, 1941 ...