More than 80 years after he was killed in action during World War II, U.S. Marine Corps Pfc. Morris E. Canady has returned ...

On Guadalcanal, the Americans pushed further ... such removing unexploded ordnance from World War II. The US is also reopening its embassy in the Solomons, which was closed in the late 1990s.

LIFE magazine published a series of photographs from Guadalcanal — the largest of the Solomon Islands and the site of the Allies’ first, pivotal offensive in the Pacific during World War II ...

Key engagements included the battles of Cape Esperance, Wake Island, and the Guadalcanal Campaign. (Conversely, these are famous U.S. ships that were sunk in WWII.) The USS Enterprise and USS San ...

On that day, Clemens saw many of the almost 19,000 U.S. Marines from 82 ships jump out of crude landing craft and struggle ashore on this lush island of coconuts and swamps in a distant corner of ...

Halsey famously noted: “The Coastwatchers saved Guadalcanal, and Guadalcanal saved ... fired in the Solomon Islands over the course of World War II, when the then-British protectorate was ...

But, back in 2012, Coulson returned to a North Carolina family a dog tag lost by a World War II soldier who fought at Guadalcanal’s Alligator Creek battle in the South Pacific. That same year ...