The Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, a multi-day battle that would see more than 1,700 Americans killed, began on this day in history, Nov. 12, 1942. Guadalcanal is the largest island in the Solomon ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The American landing on Guadalcanal on Aug. 7, 1942 and subsequent seizure of the airbase they would name Henderson Field marked ...

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The drawings, sketched by artist Howard Brodie during the Battle of Guadalcanal in the Pacific in 1942, show the war in all its horror. Scenes sketched by Brodie include a group of stretcher bearers ...

China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has sought to remedy its lack of actual combat experience by the careful study of military history, including the bloody Pacific War as I have noted in other ...

As early as March 1942, three months before the U.S. Navy inflicted a devastating defeat on a Japanese carrier force at the Battle of Midway, and when American prospects in the Pacific still looked ...

A memorial service has been held over the wreck of the largest Australian warship ever lost in battle, 75 years after it sank in Solomon Islands waters. HMAS Canberra was destroyed by the Japanese ...

The 1942 Battle of Santa Cruz, a key naval clash during the Guadalcanal campaign, was a turning point in the Pacific Theater ...

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 ...

A line in Australian coast watcher Martin Clemens’ diary for Aug. 7, 1942, reads, “Oh! What a day!” On that day, Clemens saw many of the almost 19,000 U.S. Marines from 82 ships jump out of crude ...