Researchers mapped 13 shipwrecks from WWII battles sunk near Guadalcanal, uncovering wrecks and honoring those lost in combat.

Kendrick, Kaufman, Mangrum and the other 41 aviators were sent to Guadalcanal on Aug. 20, 1942, told by their senior officer, Lt. Col. Charley Fike, that their mission on the island would be to ...

It was a brutal ordeal, one in which the Marines first captured Guadalcanal, then kept the Japanese from retaking it. John Bruning’s “Fifty-Three Days on Starvation Island” focuses on the ...

Two months after the U.S. defeated Japan at the Battle of Midway in June 1942, the U.S. Marines kicked off their Pacific island-hopping campaign. Their first target was Guadalcanal, an island some ...