Certain victory seemed guaranteed as American cruisers closed in on Japanese destroyers near Guadalcanal under the cover of ...

(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 ...

The aftermath of Guadalcanal’s brutal night battle left American sailors dead, ships crippled, and commanders stunned by the ...

On August 7, 1942, U.S. Marines landed on Guadalcanal and two other islands in the Solomons, in America's first Pacific offensive of World War II. The epic, six-month struggle for Guadalcanal would ...

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 ...

Editor’s note: This is the fifth part of Janet Landfried’s series on a trip to the South Pacific. We sailed into Kieta harbor on the island of Bougainville in a light rain. The harbor pilot arrived in ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — After dying on a distant battlefield more than 70 years ago, a Montgomery hero is returning home. U.S. Army Air Forces Maj. Peyton S. Mathis Jr., 28, died June 5, 1944, when the ...

For most of us, Aug. 8 is just another day. Charles F. "Chuck" Lewandoski would argue otherwise, and not just because it's his birthday. It's the day he landed on Guadalcanal in 1942 to participate in ...

The epic struggle for Guadalcanal is one of World War II's most compelling stories. Fought over seven months, from August 1942 to February 1943, the campaign was a series of vicious land, sea and air ...

Deep in the jungle of Guadalcanal in the South Pacific are the rusting remains of a World War II-era fighter plane. Research confirms that the plane is the doomed Wildcat flown by James "Pug" ...