The epic struggle for Guadalcanal is one of World War II's most compelling stories. Fought over seven months, from August 1942 to February 1943, the campaign was a series of vicious land, sea and air ...
The Only Army Unit to Fight in Five of the Marine Corps’ Bloodiest WWII Battles — Including Iwo Jima
From Guadalcanal to Okinawa, the Marine Corps earned its reputation for tackling some of the bloodiest battles of World War ...
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 ...
Editor's note: Paul Sparrow is director of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum. He wrote this reflection on the importance of Guadalcanal for the 75th anniversary of the U.S.
The bodies of dead Japanese soldiers cover the beach, stretching nearly as far as the eye can see. The scene is from a recent episode of the HBO series “The Pacific.” A follow-up to “Band of Brothers, ...
In this July 18, 2107 photo, Harold Berg, right, 92, talks with a friend at Berg's home in Peoria, Ill. Berg is one of the few Marine Raiders still living who fought in the battle of Guadalcanal in ...
(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 ...
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 ...
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