The American landing on Guadalcanal on Aug. 7, 1942 and subsequent seizure of the airbase they would name Henderson Field marked the first American offensive in the wake of the Dec. 7, 1941 Japanese ...

A line in Australian coast watcher Martin Clemens’ diary for Aug. 7, 1942, reads, “Oh! What a day!” On that day, Clemens saw many of the almost 19,000 U.S. Marines from 82 ships jump out of crude ...

Battle of Guadalcanal Symposium The National World War II Museum hosts a day-long symposium on the Battle of Guadalcanal as waged by land, sea, and air. In this program from the National World War II ...

Last week the Japs had a big edge on naval strength in the South Pacific. This week that edge had been whittled down, particularly in the vital cruiser category. As if to answer critics of the Navy , ...

While much of World War II is remembered as taking place on land or in the sky, the battles in the water were just as important. Protecting shipping lanes, troops, and supplies was all necessary over ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: At the grand strategic level, this Chinese Navy analysis assesses that Japan’s mistakes in the Guadalcanal campaign were partly a failure to reckon with the true ...

If you want to follow, minute by minute, five of the major engagements of World War II in the Pacific as recorded by the British, then this is the book for you. The account of each engagement is drawn ...

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 ...

MARINE CORPS AIR STATION IWAKUNI, Japan — The Marine Corps air wing in the Indo-Pacific adopted a new ceremonial call sign Monday, the 80th anniversary of one of its most significant trials, the ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Carrier Battles 4 Guadalcanal: Pacific War Naval Warfare CARRIER BATTLES is a classic hex-and-counter digital wargame covering the naval-air battles of the ...

The Second World War was home to some brutal fighting. Few theaters were quite as grueling as the War in the Pacific, which saw American and Allied forces squaring off with the Imperial Japanese Navy.