The Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, a multi-day battle that would see more than 1,700 Americans killed, began on this day in history, Nov. 12, 1942. Guadalcanal is the largest island in the Solomon ...

After the fierce fighting in the First Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, where the Japanese lost their first battleship, Hiei, both sides took heavy casualties but neither could claim full control. No side ...

In August 1942, during the early days of the Guadalcanal campaign, U.S. Marines faced their first major ground battle against the Imperial Japanese Army at the Tenaru River. Colonel Kiyonao Ichiki led ...

Eighty years ago, on Aug. 7, 1942, American Marines went ashore on the tropical islands of Guadalcanal and its tiny neighbors Tulagi, Gavutu, and Tanambogo. This marked the first sustained offensive ...

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 ...

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 ...

LARRY MAYER/Gazette Staff Herbert Livingston, of Billings, sits near medals documenting 23 years in the Marines. Livingston took part in the Battle for Guadalcanal, which began Aug. 7, 1942, and ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: At the grand strategic level, this Chinese Navy analysis assesses that Japan’s mistakes in the Guadalcanal campaign were partly a failure to reckon with the true ...

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 ...