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 ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON (Army News Service, Aug. 8, 2012) -- Seventy years after the Aug. 7, 1942 start to what would be a brutal, six-month-long battle over an island in the South Pacific, veterans of Guadalcanal ...

One of the last surviving Australian Second World War veterans of the Solomon Islands campaign has returned for the first time to mark the anniversary of the Battle of Guadalcanal. The bloody conflict ...