In the summer of 1942, the remote island of Guadalcanal suddenly became one of the most important battlegrounds of the ...

The National Museum of the Pacific War will welcome renowned Guadalcanal battlefield researcher and guide Dave Holland for a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Following a decade-long recovery and identification mission led by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency — and more than 80 years ...

I grew up with my father's World War II stories of fighting on what I later learned was one of the important island battles across the Pacific: Guadalcanal. My father was clear he was not brave; he ...

Frank S. Wright has lived a life. At 16, as World War II raged, he lied about his age and joined the Marine Corps, entering into the ranks of legends as a Marine Raider in the Pacific. He fought at ...

The waters around Guadalcanal hide one of the largest concentrations of World War II shipwrecks on Earth. This explains how a series of brutal naval battles in 1942 and 1943 turned a quiet Pacific ...