After participating in several landings during the Guadalcanal campaign, on September 27 Munro did not hesitate. "The Marines ...

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 ...

One notable fact about the Imperial Japanese Army’s combat in southern fronts, including the grueling battle on Guadalcanal ... from Burma (now Myanmar). The campaign required Japanese troops ...

The same is possibly true of Guadalcanal, where there still may ... able to get a debarkation point apparently marks the end of a campaign which began on Aug. 7, at a time when it was feared ...

Four World War II veterans will grace the Taylor Theater stage at 1 p.m. Sunday for a special veterans roundtable hosted by the Lockport Public Arts Council in conjunction with its Secret Weapons of ...

Eugene Sledge, (Jospeh Mazzello), and GySgt. John Basilone (Jon Seda). The three narrative threads occasionally intersect, and cover events such as the Guadalcanal campaign and the Battles of Cape ...