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

Every day starts a new story. The brutal battle for Okinawa lasted three months. By comparison it took six months to secure ...

The Bombing of Darwin, coupled with the Fall of Singapore just days before, marked the “lowest point” of the Pacific War for ...

Gunnery Sgt. John Basilone, one of World War II’s most decorated Marines, received the Medal of Honor and the Navy Cross ...

The Mount Soledad National Veterans Memorial in La Jolla will unveil its 32nd Medal of Honor plaque during a ceremony ...

San Diego played a vital role in several major war campaigns, seeing action in notable naval battles such as the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal and the assault on Okinawa. The ship also escorted ...

It won’t come as any surprise that there are stories about smaller, determined military forces battling and winning against ...

Ace in a day' is a rare distinction. Among the earliest American pilots to do so, Jim Swett was credited with seven victories ...

The same is possibly true of Guadalcanal, where there still may be ... unless their navy is destroyed in a great and decisive battle. Some military observers, in fact, have insisted that Japan ...

Over two years would pass until the Allies reached their great turning point in the Pacific War: the defeat of the Japanese at Guadalcanal ... became known as the Battle of the Philippine Sea ...

On February 9, 1969, the Boeing 747, the world’s first wide-body jet, took its maiden flight, revolutionising air travel.