"The Mosquito Bowl" will tell the true story of college football stars gone off to war who stage a "bowl game" in the South ...

Hubert Mee, 76, a gray-haired petroleum engineering consultant from Sacramento, stood on the bridge of the World Discoverer as it cruised past Cape Esperance, the northern tip of Guadalcanal in the ...

In November 1942, the Imperial Japanese Navy’s heavy cruiser Atago charged into one of the Pacific’s most chaotic night ...

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 this July 18, 2107 photo, Harold Berg, right, 92, talks with a friend at Berg's home in Peoria, Ill. Berg is one of the few Marine Raiders still living who fought in the battle of Guadalcanal in ...

Those intrigued by the mystery of the waters are invited to join explorers this month on Ocean Exploration Trust’s Exploration Vessel Nautilus for the virtual 21-day Maritime Archaeology of ...

The 164th Infantry Regiment took Guadalcanal by surprise in 1942. Fifty years later, Guadalcanal took the veterans by surprise. Guadalcanal isn't the same island it was 50 years ago. Until World War ...

On the humid night of August 21, 1942, the Marines of the 1st Battalion dug in along the Tenaru River, aware that Colonel ...

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 ...

There is pride of place in his shared nursing home room for the Honor Flight New England Certificate. It documents his June 17 chartered trip with other veterans to the war memorials in the nation's ...

Deep in the jungle of Guadalcanal in the South Pacific are the rusting remains of a World War II-era fighter plane. Research confirms that the plane is the doomed Wildcat flown by James "Pug" ...

The early months of World War II were a time of high anxiety over inexperienced personnel, critical shortages of supply, and great uncertainty as to strategy. “Defense” was the operative word of the ...