Modern-day Marines paid tribute this month at the site where their predecessors launched the first major U.S. ground offensive against Imperial Japan in World War II. Members of Marine Rotational ...

During the night of March 6, 1943, U.S. destroyers intercepted a Japanese supply force moving through the Blackett Strait. Guided by radar and armed with torpedoes, the American ships moved to strike ...

CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa — A Marine has been honored for helping recover American troops’ remains from a World War II battlefield in the Solomon Islands. Staff Sgt. Stephon Smith, an explosive ordnance ...

Almost no Marine of the U.S. 1st Marine Division stationed on Guadalcanal — an island 90 miles long and 25 miles wide in the Solomons Archipelago of the South Pacific Ocean — had experienced combat ...

At dawn on August 7, 1942, thousands of young, fierce, and tenacious American patriots stormed the shores of Red Beach, commencing the epic Battle of Guadalcanal—a roaring display of American might ...

On Nov. 30, 1942, the USS New Orleans was in the middle of a pitched battle off of Guadalcanal. A Japanese torpedo scored a direct hit on the bow of the U.S. Navy cruiser. The blast ignited the ship’s ...