KVIFF's goal is "aesthetic and historical, to tell people ... that this guy was here before Marlon Brando and James Dean and was the first method actor," says the fest's artistic director Karel Och.

USS Waller, a freshly commissioned Fletcher-class destroyer, steamed into battle near Rennell Island as part of Task Force 18 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

A U.S. Marine Corps honor guard carries the casket of Pvt. Charmning W. Rowe, a Marine killed during the battle of Guadalcanal. (Staff Sgt. Ethan M. LeBlanc/Marine Corps) Following a decade-long ...