The American landing on Guadalcanal on Aug. 7, 1942 and subsequent seizure of ... Scott first found action during World War I as the executive officer of USS Jacob Jones, which, on the night of Dec. 6 ...

Marine Cpl. John E. Edwinson Jr. comes home to Wilmington. Edwinson was sadly killed in action during World War II on Sept.

Staff Sgt. Stephon Smith carries what are believed to be the remains of a fallen Marine killed in 1942 during the Battle of ...

Because Guadalcanal had the code name “Cactus ... “This rifle was probably the very best in the war, and the best military hand weapon ever placed on the battlefield.” ...

Eric Hammel’s books on Second World War air combat, especially fighter combat, made extensive use of interviews with US personnel, back when they could be interviewed, including those for a planned ...

All supplies at Guadalcanal had to be unloaded at the beach and loaded into trucks and then distributed so that they all would not blow up at one time. The war is actually planned by the officers ...

About 80 years after the end of one of the bloodiest battles in World War II, unexploded wartime ordnance that remain on Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands threaten to add to the casualties.

William] Halsey. I think Halsey said horribly racist things that were counterproductive, but early in the war, in the Guadalcanal campaign, he was vital. There are those kind of personalities that ...

The first American invasion force of the Second World War gathered off the coast of Guadalcanal Over 19000 young Marines prepared for a mission that many regarded as impossible against the ...