About 80 years after the end of one of the bloodiest battles in World War II, unexploded wartime ordnance that remain on Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands threaten to add to the casualties. But Japan ...

It has been 82 years since Staff Sgt. Nicholas J. Governale crashed into the sea off the coast of Guadalcanal. Now, the ...

Following a decade-long recovery and identification mission led by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency — and more than 80 years since he was killed in the hellish Guadalcanal campaign — U.S. Marine ...

In January 1943, an Allied convoy set sail from Noumea to Guadalcanal, escorted by a cruiser Task Force 18 led by Rear ...

Fresh from victory at Midway, the Allies launched their first Pacific offensive under Operation Watchtower, only to collide ...

Editor’s note: This is the fifth part of Janet Landfried’s series on a trip to the South Pacific. We sailed into Kieta harbor on the island of Bougainville in a light rain. The harbor pilot arrived in ...

Terry Shoptaugh, American history professor, archivist and author, Minnesota State University Moorhead Shoptaugh's new book, released days ago, is "They Were Ready," about the 164th Infantry Regiment ...

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 Pacific, 1942: They were young men, a year removed from their stateside fraternity houses and university lecture halls. Charles "Red" Kendrick spent his 16th birthday in the shadow of Stanford’s ...

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 ...