To anyone unfamiliar with the Richard Tregaskis book, the picture version may or may not be a faithful adaptation [by Jerry Cady] of the original. But it is without question a painstaking, dignified ...

In the following interview, Barrett Tillman, an author and historian who appears in the film “Dogfight Over Guadalcanal,” discusses the art of the dogfight and the Guadalcanal campaign. What was your ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

On August 7, 1942 war correspondent Richard Tregaskis took part in the US Marine invasion of Guadalcanal. His experiences became the basis for a book entitled Guadalcanal Diary. A year later, director ...