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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

In many ways, the Guadalcanal visit was the bookend to a tense week that started with trips to Asia by Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken and the speaker of the House of Representatives, Nancy ...

THE Chinese Embassy in Solomon Islands has donated a range of livelihood supplies to the Malaita Province, in a ceremony held ...

Alberta’s threat to divorce Canada is getting more serious than ever. Premier Danielle Smith announced this week that the oil-rich province could hold its first-ever referendum on independence ...

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 ...

The American landing on Guadalcanal on Aug. 7, 1942 and subsequent seizure of the airbase they would name Henderson Field marked the first American offensive in the wake of the Dec. 7, 1941 ...

A conservative Canadian province plans to secede from the rest of the liberal country as some are even open to becoming America's 51st state, especially after liberal Mark Carney was elected.

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 ...