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 ...

After the fierce fighting in the First Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, where the Japanese lost their first battleship, Hiei, both sides took heavy casualties but neither could claim full control. No side ...

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 ...

A former schoolteacher armed with a radio and a force of Solomon Islander scouts became one of World War II's most legendary ...

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 ...

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