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 ...

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.

(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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Gen. Alexander Vandegrift, who oversaw ground combat on Guadalcanal during its earliest, most grueling phase, likewise hit on a notion he termed “active defense.” Once U.S. Marine defenders had ...

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 ...