On that day, Clemens saw many of the almost 19,000 U.S. Marines from 82 ships jump out of crude landing craft and struggle ashore on this lush island of coconuts and swamps in a distant corner of the ...

In November 1942, the Imperial Japanese Navy’s heavy cruiser Atago charged into one of the Pacific’s most chaotic night ...

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.

The American landing on Guadalcanal on Aug. 7, 1942 and subsequent seizure of the airbase they would name Henderson Field marked the first American offensive in the wake of the Dec. 7, 1941 Japanese ...

Samuel Folsom, a Marine Corps fighter pilot who battled Japanese Zeros over Guadalcanal in World War II, died Saturday in Sherman Oaks, Calif., according to the New York Times. He was 102. Folsom, ...

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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 ...

U.S. Marine Joseph A. Bucci fought valiantly on Guadalcanal in World War II and then furthered the war effort as a public speaker back home in Amsterdam. Bucci was the son of Charles and Mary Bucci ...

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 ...