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 ...

Life has never a dull moment for the Marines on Guadalcanal, site of the important Solomons air base that was wrested from the Japanese a month ago. If the enemy is not attacking, the Marines are.

Guadalcanal's airfield was seized within 36 hours. The Marines named it Henderson Field after Maj. Lofton Henderson, a Marine aviator killed at Midway, and set about completing it for their own use.

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 ...

It was a brutal ordeal, one in which the Marines first captured Guadalcanal, then kept the Japanese from retaking it. John Bruning’s “Fifty-Three Days on Starvation Island” focuses on 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." ...

Following a decade-long recovery and identification mission led by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency — and more than 80 years since he was killed in the hellish Guadalcanal campaign — U.S ...