CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa — A Marine has been honored for helping recover American troops’ remains from a World War II battlefield in the Solomon Islands. Staff Sgt. Stephon Smith, an explosive ordnance ...

PEORIA, Ill. (AP) — When Harold Berg stepped onto the white beach of Guadalcanal in late July, he carried memories of the battle he participated in 75 years ago, and also of his buddies he left behind ...

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 ...

CLARKSBURG, Mass. (NEWS10) — The remains of a fallen World War II Marine were brought home eight decades after he was killed in the battle of Guadalcanal, and his gravesite was lost in the fog of war.

When two of the Guadalcanal's F4F Wildcat aircraft spotted a U-505 off the coast of Cape Verde, Gallery knew he had his chance. Not only did he have boarding parties ready, he had a film crew standing ...

In 1942, US Marines launched America’s first major amphibious offensive of WW2 at Guadalcanal. Isolated, undersupplied, and under relentless night attacks, they held Henderson Field against repeated ...

On Aug. 7, 1942, eight months to the day after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in a plan code-named Operation Watchtower, United States Marines landed on the island of Guadalcanal. One of those ...

An expedition led by the Ocean Exploration Trust aboard the Exploration Vessel (E/V) Nautilus has uncovered 13 shipwrecks off the coast of Guadalcanal, shedding light on one of the most pivotal naval ...

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(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 ...

Frank S. Wright turns 100 on July 5, 2025. He’d like to get 100,000 birthday cards for the occasion. Frank S. Wright has lived a life. At 16, as World War II raged, he lied about his age and joined ...