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 ...

Join Captain Joe Foss, a seasoned 27-year-old Marine aviator, as he faces his first aerial combat over Guadalcanal in October 1942. Leading the newly formed VMF-121 squadron, Foss navigates ...

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 ...

During the Guadalcanal campaign, Signalman First Class Douglas Monroe repeatedly exposed himself to enemy fire while rescuing trapped Marines. Manning a machine gun under attack, he covered ...

A lifetime ago a struggle began that would help shape the world for decades to come. The ranks of the men who served there are thinning rapidly now, perhaps a few thousand remaining among the tens of ...

Martin Clemens, a British district officer on Guadalcanal, a large island northeast of Australia, had taken to the hills with his native scouts when the Japanese first arrived in June 1942, six months ...

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 ...

Charles Jackson French with his sister, Viola, at a Creighton University football game on Oct. 31, 1942, at which he was honored. French towed a raft loaded with his wounded shipmates through ...