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 Japanese ...

Huddled in a landing barge at Guadalcanal, a unit of the Army Airways Communications System prepared to shove off. Their destination was a New Georgia landing strip recently clawed from Jap hands.

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 ...

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 ...

A U.S. Marine Corps honor guard carries the casket of Pvt. Charmning W. Rowe, a Marine killed during the battle of Guadalcanal. (Staff Sgt. Ethan M. LeBlanc/Marine Corps) Following a decade-long ...

Those intrigued by the mystery of the waters are invited to join explorers this month on Ocean Exploration Trust’s Exploration Vessel Nautilus for the virtual 21-day Maritime Archaeology of ...

Over a month into the hellish fight for control of Guadalcanal, then-Marine Lt. Col. Lewis B. “Chesty” Puller ordered elements from the 1st Battalion, 7th Marines to conduct an exploratory mission to ...

The Calvert Marine Museum's Cradle of Invasion commemoration this past weekend recalled the Navy's first amphibious training base, established at Solomons in 1942. The event included a veterans ...