On December 3, 1942, aerial reconnaissance over Japanese-held territory near Guadalcanal revealed an unsettling anomaly - ...

The Worst Place on Earth. Guadalcanal is one of the Solomon Islands chain in the Southwest Pacific that lie north and east of Australia. In 1942 it was mountainous, covered in stinking, disease-ridden ...

He hiked back through the jungle and found another cockpit and kept fighting. He’d earn the Medal of Honor for his time on Guadalcanal. Inevitably, the college kids-turned combat aviators began ...

Guadalcanal, basically a 2,500-square-feet mass of jungle terrain in the Solomon Islands, was strategically important to both sides because of its location near Australia and American bases in the ...

During their two weeks on Guadalcanal, the 27 expedition members found about 30 sets of remains, mostly partial skeletons unearthed from the hard, dark brown jungle floor. On one afternoon, the group ...

Guadalcanal was a six-month campaign where two things were broken: the back of Japan’s naval aviation, and the myth of Japanese superiority in jungle warfare. The book provides much more detail than ...

Jungle ailments took hundreds of soldiers out of battle. ... But on Guadalcanal and those smaller islands, everybody was under fire. So, they all shared something in common, ...

Seventy-seven years ago today, the U.S. Marines’ 1st Division landed on the beaches at Guadalcanal. Until then, most Americans had never heard of the 90-mile-long chunk of jungle in the Solomon ...

It was 6:14 a.m. Friday, Aug. 7, 1942, eight months to the day after the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor. “Suddenly . . . I saw a brilliant yellow-green flash of light coming from . . . a ...