On the suffocating night of August 21, 1942, Japanese troops under Colonel Ichiki launched a desperate attack against ...

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 ...

In the summer of 1942, the remote island of Guadalcanal suddenly became one of the most important battlegrounds of the Pacific War. Both the United States and Imperial Japan recognized its strategic ...

In the aftermath of Japan’s surprise attack at Pearl Harbor, there was plenty of hope that the United States wouldn’t have the strength to respond. However, the US was a sleeping giant, and instead of ...

While much of World War II is remembered as taking place on land or in the sky, the battles in the water were just as important. Protecting shipping lanes, troops, and supplies was all necessary over ...