In August 1942, during the early days of the Guadalcanal campaign, U.S. Marines faced their first major ground battle against the Imperial Japanese Army at the Tenaru River. Colonel Kiyonao Ichiki led ...

The Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, a multi-day battle that would see more than 1,700 Americans killed, began on this day in history, Nov. 12, 1942. Guadalcanal is the largest island in the Solomon ...

Eighty years ago, on Aug. 7, 1942, American Marines went ashore on the tropical islands of Guadalcanal and its tiny neighbors Tulagi, Gavutu, and Tanambogo. This marked the first sustained offensive ...

After the fierce fighting in the First Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, where the Japanese lost their first battleship, Hiei, both sides took heavy casualties but neither could claim full control. No side ...

Staff Sgt. Stephon Smith carries what are believed to be the remains of a fallen Marine killed in 1942 during the Battle of Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands during a repatriation ceremony at Marine ...

US Navy transport ship USS President Adams, its decks crowded with troops, before the invasion of Guadalcanal, August 4, 1942.PhotoQuest/Getty Images Eighty years ago, Allied troops stormed the ...

Here’s What You Need To Remember: This Chinese Navy analysis assesses that Japan’s mistakes in the Guadalcanal campaign were partly a failure to reckon with the true significance of the Midway battle ...

Cox’s 2018 book Morning Star, Midnight Sun, on the opening phases of the Allied campaign in the Solomons from August through October of 1942, left the Marines holding Henderson Field and some adjacent ...

CLARKSBURG — In the years after their son was killed in World War II, Erwin C. and Emilia King kept the faith that he someday would return home. They even purchased an extra plot next to where they ...