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Amidst the dark waters of Guadalcanal in World War 2, the USS Helena’s silhouette was illuminated by the occasional flare of ...
Under cover of night on November 29, 1943, USS Minneapolis led Task Force 67 into Ironbottom Sound to intercept a Japanese convoy bound for Guadalcanal. Her 8-inch guns opened the Battle of ...
One of the remaining U.S. Marines who helped liberate Guam from Japanese soldiers during World War II, former Cpl. Frank S.
He joined the Marines at 16, served as a Raider, and fought at Iwo Jima and Guadalcanal in World War II. Now, he just wants ...
A 1942 aerial map that had previously gone unnoticed and unused in a Hawaiian museum archive held the key to locating Rowe ...
The American campaign to wrest the island of Guadalcanal from the Japanese began on Aug. 7, 1942. ... At just 21 years old when he arrived on Guadalcanal on Sept. 18, 1942, ...
The American campaign to wrest the island of Guadalcanal from the Japanese began on Aug. 7, 1942. The first land campaign of the Pacific, Guadalcanal was to play an outsized roll in turning the ...
A local attacked and stabbed a Japanese military personnel during a Guadalcanal battle commemoration service on Monday.TORIKA TOKALAU / Stuff Defence Minister Peeni Henare says he didn’t feel ...
Old Breed General: How Marine Corps General William H. Rupertus Broke the Back of the Japanese in World War II from Guadalcanal to Peleliu Amy Rupertus Peacock and Don Brown. Stackpole, $29.95 ...
The American campaign to wrest the island of Guadalcanal from the Japanese began on Aug. 7, 1942. ... At just 21 years old when he arrived on Guadalcanal on Sept. 18, 1942, ...