Following a decade-long recovery and identification mission led by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency — and more than 80 years since he was killed in the hellish Guadalcanal campaign — U.S. Marine ...

The Battle of the Eastern Solomons, fought on August 24-25, 1942 during the Guadalcanal campaign, was a crucial carrier ...

When 20-year-old Charmning Willie Rowe joined the military to fight alongside his brother in World War II, it wasn’t because he was drafted but because he wouldn’t take no as an answer. Time after ...

This video dives into the Marine Corps’ delayed adoption of the M1 Garand prior to and during the Guadalcanal campaign. It ...

CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa — A Marine has been honored for helping recover American troops’ remains from a World War II battlefield in the Solomon Islands. Staff Sgt. Stephon Smith, an explosive ordnance ...

On Aug. 7, 1942, eight months to the day after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in a plan code-named Operation Watchtower, United States Marines landed on the island of Guadalcanal. One of those ...

Almost no Marine of the U.S. 1st Marine Division stationed on Guadalcanal — an island 90 miles long and 25 miles wide in the Solomons Archipelago of the South Pacific Ocean — had experienced combat ...

My father never spoke much about Guadalcanal, the island that was the scene of one of the World War II’s pivotal battles. I, along with my brother and sister, knew he was a second lieutenant rifle ...