This video showcases the hard-fought battle of the Marines in the Guadalcanal Campaign, starting on August 7, 1942.

The USS Enterprise (CV-6), an aircraft carrier, was the most decorated American naval vessel to fight in World War II and ...

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whom had just invaded Guadalcanal two days before. A US Navy strategical and tactical analysis of the battle, which was published in 1950, praised the commanding Japanese admiral, Gunichi Mikawa ...

A former soldier who joined the Corps because the Army “wasn’t tough enough” and rose to fame during the Battle of Guadalcanal, when he ran ammunition along the lines to beleaguered and cut ...

One notable fact about the Imperial Japanese Army’s combat in southern fronts, including the grueling battle on Guadalcanal, which was called “Gato” (starvation island), is the large numbers ...

Since the Japanese controlled nearly every island between the Philippines and Hawaii in 1942, getting to the Philippines meant seizing many of those islands, which included Guadalcanal ...