(Reuters) - The battle fields of Guadalcanal, in the Solomon Islands, draw visitors from the United States and its war allies, as well as those from Japan, decades after the bloody campaign in the ...

Modern-day Marines paid tribute this month at the site where their predecessors launched the first major U.S. ground offensive against Imperial Japan in World War II. Members of Marine Rotational ...

Those intrigued by the mystery of the waters are invited to join explorers this month on Ocean Exploration Trust’s Exploration Vessel Nautilus for the virtual 21-day Maritime Archaeology of ...

At dawn on August 7, 1942, thousands of young, fierce, and tenacious American patriots stormed the shores of Red Beach, commencing the epic Battle of Guadalcanal—a roaring display of American might ...

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 ...

This vivid account of a week with the U.S. Marines in the Solomon Islands was written by New York Times Correspondent F. Tillman Durdin, and is reprinted by permission of the Times: Life has never a ...

During the Guadalcanal campaign of World War II, the United States Armed Forces fought the Imperial Japanese Navy to recapture the Solomon Islands in the Pacific. But what started as an amphibious ...

He went to war at 22 with limited flying experience but dodged Zeros, knocked out bombers and won the Distinguished Flying Cross and a Purple Heart. By Robert D. McFadden Samuel Folsom, one of the ...