Last week the Japs had a big edge on naval strength in the South Pacific. This week that edge had been whittled down, particularly in the vital cruiser category. As if to answer critics of the Navy , ...

(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 ...

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 ...

Eighty years ago, Allied troops stormed the beaches of Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands. It was the first Allied offensive in the Pacific, and it began to roll back the Japanese advance. The ...

Japan reported her sunk three times. Each time, she returned to the fight. This is the story of the USS Enterprise, the "Gray ...

The Pacific, 1942: They were young men, a year removed from their stateside fraternity houses and university lecture halls. Charles "Red" Kendrick spent his 16th birthday in the shadow of Stanford’s ...

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 ...

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A line in Australian coast watcher Martin Clemens’ diary for Aug. 7, 1942, reads, “Oh! What a day!” On that day, Clemens saw many of the almost 19,000 U.S. Marines from 82 ships jump out of crude ...

Following a decade-long recovery and identification mission led by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency — and more than 80 years since he was killed in the hellish Guadalcanal campaign — U.S. Marine ...

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 ...