This footage highlights the Guadalcanal Campaign in World War II, where U.S. Marines fought Japanese units. The Battle of ...

In the opening days of August 1942, a B-17 was flown over Guadalcanal and saw that the Japanese had nearly completed an ...

This is the third in a series of occasional articles by Marshalltown native Steve Jones about his family during the second ...

snapped Major General Oliver Prince Smith, commander of the 1st Marine Division, with which he had fought on Guadalcanal ... (“Chesty”) Puller, famed battle-scarred commander of the 1st ...

Over two years would pass until the Allies reached their great turning point in the Pacific War: the defeat of the Japanese at Guadalcanal ... became known as the Battle of the Philippine Sea ...

AMONG the sea of names that adorn war memorials around the world are men, women, and children whose lives were tragically cut ...

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Following the attack on Pearl Harbor Walter went on to see combat at Guadalcanal, New Georgia, New Guinea, and was present at the Battle of Luzon where he was injured on February 10, 1945.

Modern military warfare contains numerous examples of platoon positions being given away by light reflecting from soldiers’ ...

Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941–1942 is the first volume in the Pacific War trilogy. The book is a narrative history of the opening phase of the Pacific War, which took place in the ...

SECNAV Del Toro Announces the Sponsors of the Future USS Charles J. French will be the Director of OMB and Ms. Vanessa French ...