The American landing on Guadalcanal on Aug. 7, 1942 and subsequent seizure of the airbase they would name Henderson Field marked the first American offensive in the wake of the Dec. 7, 1941 Japanese ...

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 ...

First round of the American offensive in the Solomon Islands was over. The Navy had announced that the three islands where the Marines had landed—probably Florida, Tulagi and Guadalcanal—had been ...

On August 7, 1942, Japan received an urgent distress call reporting that Allied forces had begun an invasion of the Solomon Islands and Guadalcanal Island in the South Pacific. Determined to not lose ...