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

Staff Sgt. Stephon Smith carries what are believed to be the remains of a fallen Marine killed in 1942 during the Battle of Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands during a repatriation ceremony at Marine ...

In August 1942, thousands of U.S. Marines were stranded on Guadalcanal with limited supplies and no certainty of rescue.

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 ...

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 ...

Modern-day Marines paid tribute this month at the site where their predecessors launched the first major U.S. ground offensive against Imperial Japan in World War II. Members of Marine Rotational ...

In 1942, U.S. Marines were left behind after the Navy withdrew from a critical Pacific battlefield. This film follows the ...

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 ...

Samuel Folsom, a Marine Corps fighter pilot who battled Japanese Zeros over Guadalcanal in World War II, died Saturday in Sherman Oaks, Calif., according to the New York Times. He was 102. Folsom, ...

The Pacific, 1942: They were young men, a year removed from their stateside fraternity houses and university lecture halls. Charles "Red" Kendrick spent his 16th birthday in the shadow of Stanford’s ...

Your editorial “The Unwisdom of the Solomons” (Aug. 31) will draw the attention of a high percentage of your Marine readers. An important part of the training for every recruit who will proudly wear ...