The Battle of Guadalcanal was a military campaign fought ... in the Pacific theater of World War II. It was the first major land offensive by Allied forces against the Empire of Japan.

Two months after the U.S. defeated Japan at the Battle of Midway in June 1942, the U.S. Marines kicked off their Pacific ...

John Basilone was killed in action during the battle of Iwo Jima and posthumously awarded the Navy Cross for heroism — making him the first and ... during the Battle of Guadalcanal, when he ...

Predictions based on this unscientific and inhumane theory always proved accurate, Yasuo Obi, a second lieutenant ... including the grueling battle on Guadalcanal, which was called “Gato ...