The Guadalcanal campaign was one of the Pacific War’s most grueling and prolonged battles, costing both the United States and ...

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 ...

Students at Discovery Guam sent heartfelt letters to one of the remaining U.S. Marines who helped liberate Guam from Japanese ...

Defence Minister Peeni Henare says he didn’t feel threatened when a Japanese military member was stabbed beside him at a commemoration service for the Guadalcanal battle. The service, held on ...

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 ...

A U.S. Marine Corps honor guard carries the casket of Pvt. Charmning W. Rowe, a Marine killed during the battle of Guadalcanal. (Staff Sgt. Ethan M. LeBlanc/Marine Corps) Following a decade-long ...

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 ...

One of the remaining U.S. Marines who helped liberate Guam from Japanese soldiers during World War II, former Cpl. Frank S.