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

Amidst the dark waters of Guadalcanal in World War 2, the USS Helena’s silhouette was illuminated by the occasional flare of ...

A 1942 aerial map that had previously gone unnoticed and unused in a Hawaiian museum archive held the key to locating Rowe ...

In the summer of 1942, these fraternity boys-turned combat pilots formed the tip of the aerial spear in America’s first offensive of World War II: the seizure of Guadalcanal from the Japanese.

The Guadalcanal Campaign, more so even than the Battle of Midway, tore the heart out of Japanese naval airpower. Eighty years later, the Solomons have again attracted U.S. strategic interest.

In 1943, Japanese troops evacuated Guadalcanal, leaving it in Allied possession. The Japanese invaded the Solomon Islands in 1942 as part of World War II and Guadalcanal was home to a strategic ...

Japanese forces had gone to Guadalcanal in June to build an airfield. It was part of a strategy by Japanese forces to advance across the Pacific with an island perimeter of air bases.

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, ...