FIVE men have been rescued at sea near Malaita Province last week after encountering rough weather during a boat trip from ...

It’s just past midnight on Friday November 13th, 1942. The opening of the battle of Guadalcanal. On board the USS San Francisco is Rear Admiral Daniel Judson Callaghan. The fleet of 13 ships was ...

In February 1943, LIFE magazine published a series of photographs from Guadalcanal — the largest of the Solomon Islands and the site of the Allies’ first, pivotal offensive in the Pacific ...

Life is like that on Guadalcanal. Another raider group swept through the extensive area westward of the Marines’ perimeter, hunting down a Japanese force that has a foothold there. A half-dozen ...

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.

The government is giving $100,000 to help with flood relief in the Solomon Islands. A state of emergency has been declared after heavy rain caused significant flooding in Guadalcanal Province over ...

The Guadalcanal Rambo. Posted: May 29, 2025 | Last updated: May 29, 2025. Sergeant John Basilone and his unit were facing relentless fire from the Japanese forces during the Battle for Henderson ...

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 ...

Following a decade-long recovery and identification mission led by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency — and more than 80 years since he was killed in the hellish Guadalcanal campaign — U.S ...