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 ...

A line in Australian coast watcher Martin Clemens’ diary for Aug. 7, 1942, reads, “Oh! What a day!” On that day, Clemens saw many of the almost 19,000 U.S. Marines from 82 ships jump out of crude ...

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, ...

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 ...

U.S. Marines, with full battle kits, charge ashore on Guadalcanal Island from a landing barge during the early phase of the U.S. offensive in the Solomon Islands in Aug. 1942, during World War II. For ...

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 ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: No combatant can do everything everywhere on the map at the same time and expect to triumph. Japan, in particular, had to husband resources, There are three big ideas ...

On a dark night with no moon and heavily overcast skies on Nov. 30, 1942, the USS New Orleans was one of 11 cruisers and destroyers sailing in formation into the waters near the Solomon Islands in the ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Almost no Marine of the U.S. 1st Marine Division stationed on Guadalcanal — an island 90 miles long and 25 miles wide in the ...