After the fierce fighting in the First Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, where the Japanese lost their first battleship, Hiei, ...

GUADALCANAL, Solomon Islands - It had been 75 years since Soldiers from the U.S. Army stepped on the shores of Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands during the Second World War. More than 29,000 Soldiers ...

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The American landing on Guadalcanal on Aug. 7, 1942 and subsequent seizure of the airbase they would name Henderson Field marked the first American offensive in the wake of the Dec. 7, 1941 Japanese ...

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Here’s What You Need To Remember: This Chinese Navy analysis assesses that Japan’s mistakes in the Guadalcanal campaign were partly a failure to reckon with the true significance of the Midway battle ...

China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has sought to remedy its lack of actual combat experience by the careful study of military history, including the bloody Pacific War as I have noted in other ...

Sixty years ago, when the Japanese invaded the Solomon Islands, a young British officer, Martin Clemens, stayed hidden behind enemy lines to spy. He's one of the heroes of the Battle of Guadalcanal.

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WASHINGTON -- Secretary of Navy Frank Knox said today that U.S. forces finally had smashed all organized Japanese resistance on Guadalcanal and were now in position to strike the enemy's "most ...

This week, the eleventh of the Battle of the Solomons, the U.S. was confronted by some figures and a crisis: U.S. Marines, soldiers and sailors had damaged 51 and sunk eleven ships and destroyed 340 ...