On August 7, 1942, U.S. Marines landed on Guadalcanal and two other islands in the Solomons, in America's first Pacific offensive of World War II. The epic, six-month struggle for Guadalcanal would ...

MOUNT DORA – Retired Marine Sgt. Kenneth Wolfe, 93, stepped ashore on Guadalcanal with a flag in hand to what appeared to be an absence of resistance on the South Pacific island 71 years ago today.

Editor's note: Paul Sparrow is director of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum. He wrote this reflection on the importance of Guadalcanal for the 75th anniversary of the U.S.

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 ...

Editor's note: This story was first published 25 years ago as part of a series marking the 50th anniversary of World War II through the eyes of Western Massachusetts residents and veterans. Additional ...

(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 ...

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 ...

Gen. Alexander Vandegrift, who oversaw ground combat on Guadalcanal during its earliest, most grueling phase, likewise hit on a notion he termed “active defense.” Once U.S. Marine defenders had ...

PEORIA, Ill. (AP) - When Harold Berg stepped onto the white beach of Guadalcanal in late July, he carried memories of the battle he participated in 75 years ago, and also of his buddies he left behind ...