Martin Clemens was a British district officer who became one of the coastwatchers on Guadalcanal during World War II. His ...

(Reuters) - The battle fields of Guadalcanal, in the Solomon Islands, draw visitors from the United States and its war allies, as well as those from Japan, decades after the bloody campaign in the ...

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

WASHINGTON -- Secretary of Navy Frank Knox said today that U.S. forces finally had smashed all organized Japanese resistance on Guadalcanal and were now in position to strike the enemy's "most ...

Two months after the U.S. defeated Japan at the Battle of Midway in June 1942, the U.S. Marines kicked off their Pacific island-hopping campaign. Their first target was Guadalcanal, an island some ...