In the Solomon Islands, a single stretch of water became the center of a brutal year-long campaign. This breaks down the key naval battles around Guadalcanal, and why so many ships went down here that ...

After the fierce fighting in the First Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, where the Japanese lost their first battleship, Hiei, ...

Almost no Marine of the U.S. 1st Marine Division stationed on Guadalcanal — an island 90 miles long and 25 miles wide in the Solomons Archipelago of the South Pacific Ocean — had experienced combat ...

A PBJ Mitchell assigned to Marine Bombing Squadron 611 in flight in 1944. (Naval History and Heritage Command) It has been 82 years since Staff Sgt. Nicholas J. Governale crashed into the sea off the ...