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 ...

Following a decade-long recovery and identification mission led by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency — and more than 80 years since he was killed in the hellish Guadalcanal campaign — U.S. Marine ...

More than 80 years after he was killed in action during one of the fiercest early battles of World War II, U.S. Marine Corps Pfc. Charmning Rowe has finally returned home to Orlando, Fla. Rowe’s ...

Staff Sgt. Stephon Smith carries what are believed to be the remains of a fallen Marine killed in 1942 during the Battle of Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands during a repatriation ceremony at Marine ...

Over a month into the hellish fight for control of Guadalcanal, then-Marine Lt. Col. Lewis B. “Chesty” Puller ordered elements from the 1st Battalion, 7th Marines to conduct an exploratory mission to ...

This week, the eleventh of the Battle of the Solomons, the U.S. was confronted by some figures and a crisis: U.S. Marines, soldiers and sailors had damaged 51 and sunk eleven ships and destroyed 340 ...

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 ...

People began to ask questions about the campaign in the Solomons. Had it been wisely planned and wisely executed? Had the men behind the lines given the men on Guadalcanal a fair chance to hold and to ...

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