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This video showcases the hard-fought battle of the Marines in the Guadalcanal Campaign, starting on August 7, 1942.

Don Harris went ashore on Iwo Jima, where he and his fellow Marines faced one of the bloodiest battles of the Pacific War.

Gunnery Sergeant John Basilone is the only enlisted Marine of the World War II era to receive both the Medal of Honor and ...

The Bombing of Darwin, coupled with the Fall of Singapore just days before, marked the “lowest point” of the Pacific War for ...

Ace in a day' is a rare distinction. Among the earliest American pilots to do so, Jim Swett was credited with seven victories ...

It won’t come as any surprise that there are stories about smaller, determined military forces battling and winning against ...

Australian Defence Minister Richard Marles pledged full collaboration with the Trump administration in the war drive against ...

The director behind 'Friday Night Lights' and 'American Primeval' talks about the creative process that takes him from ...

Wis., charged the U.S. State Department was infested with communists, touching off the infamous "McCarthy era." ...

It means that the supply line to Australia and New Zealand from the United States has been freed from ... Advertisement The marines and the army men who followed them have achieved their objective ...