Try Lingopie with my exclusive promo code for a 7-day free trial and an exclusive discount! The 1942 First Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, fought between Allied and Japanese forces, was a decisive night ...

HONIARA, Solomon Islands – Under a blazing Pacific island sun, Secretary of State John F. Kerry on Wednesday hailed the service and sacrifices of American fighting men who repelled a six-month ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — After dying on a distant battlefield more than 70 years ago, a Montgomery hero is returning home. U.S. Army Air Forces Maj. Peyton S. Mathis Jr., 28, died June 5, 1944, when the ...

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 ...

In January 1943, an Allied convoy set sail from Noumea to Guadalcanal, escorted by a cruiser Task Force 18 led by Rear Admiral Robert C. Giffen. Unbeknownst to them, Japanese submarines had been ...

The 164th Infantry Regiment took Guadalcanal by surprise in 1942. Fifty years later, Guadalcanal took the veterans by surprise. Guadalcanal isn't the same island it was 50 years ago. Until World War ...

On a quiet ridge overlooking the blue Pacific, a squad of shirtless children charges out of the tall Kunai grass that ruffles and waves in the hot afternoon wind. Wearing nothing more than shy grins ...

In this July 18, 2107 photo, Harold Berg, right, 92, talks with a friend at Berg's home in Peoria, Ill. Berg is one of the few Marine Raiders still living who fought in the battle of Guadalcanal in ...

On August 7, 1942, U.S. Marines landed on Guadalcanal and two other islands in the Solomons, in America's first Pacific offensive of World War II. The epic, six-month struggle for Guadalcanal would ...

Deep in the jungle of Guadalcanal in the South Pacific are the rusting remains of a World War II-era fighter plane. Research confirms that the plane is the doomed Wildcat flown by James "Pug" ...

The early months of World War II were a time of high anxiety over inexperienced personnel, critical shortages of supply, and great uncertainty as to strategy. “Defense” was the operative word of the ...