In the summer of 1942, the remote island of Guadalcanal suddenly became one of the most important battlegrounds of the Pacific War. Both the United States and Imperial Japan recognized its strategic ...

The National Museum of the Pacific War will welcome renowned Guadalcanal battlefield researcher and guide Dave Holland for a free special meet-and-greet and book signing on March ...

The waters around Guadalcanal hide one of the largest concentrations of World War II shipwrecks on Earth. This explains how a series of brutal naval battles in 1942 and 1943 turned a quiet Pacific ...

I grew up with my father's World War II stories of fighting on what I later learned was one of the important island battles across the Pacific: Guadalcanal. My father was clear he was not brave; he ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Following a decade-long recovery and identification mission led by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency — and more than 80 years ...

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 ...