Staff Sgt. Stephon Smith carries what are believed to be the remains of a fallen Marine killed in 1942 during the Battle of ...

USS President Jackson under attack during the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal. In the center background, smoke rises after an Japanese plane crashed into the superstructure of USS San Francisco.

and the invasion of Guadalcanal and its immediate aftermath. Lundstrom has researched this period extensively for his former works and this one. He uses as sources the surviving staff logs of Fletcher ...

On August 7, 1942, Japan received an urgent alert that Allied forces had begun an invasion of the Solomon Islands and Guadalcanal. In response, Vice Admiral Gunichi Mikawa and his fleet rushed ...

who received the Medal of Honor for his heroism during the Battle of Guadalcanal in 1942. He was killed in action during the February 1945 invasion of Iwo Jima and was posthumously awarded the ...