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 ...

In the summer of 1942, the remote island of Guadalcanal became the center of a brutal clash between Japanese and American forces. The Japanese sought to complete an airfield that would give them ...

At dawn on August 7, 1942, thousands of young, fierce, and tenacious American patriots stormed the shores of Red Beach, commencing the epic Battle of Guadalcanal—a roaring display of American might ...

Almost no Marine of the U.S. 1st Marine Division stationed on Guadalcanal - an island 90 miles long and 25 miles wide in the Solomons Archipelago of the South Pacific Ocean - had experienced combat ...