Certain victory seemed guaranteed as American cruisers closed in on Japanese destroyers near Guadalcanal under the cover of ...

Japan’s infamous Long Lance torpedoes unleashed devastation on American warships during one of the Pacific War’s deadliest ...

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Making a brief appearance in this book is an airplane irreverently named “The Resurrection”, brought back from the dead at Henderson Field on Guadalcanal through combining parts from multiple wrecks ...

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 , ...

26th October 1942: The bodies of Japanese soldiers on the beach at Guadalcanal, after a disastrous attempt to land reinforcements. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images) 26th October 1942: The bodies of ...

The diary of a Marine who recorded his first eight months of World War II in the Pacific before fighting in some of its bloodiest battles is back with his family after it surfaced 81 years later.

CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa — A Marine has been honored for helping recover American troops’ remains from a World War II battlefield in the Solomon Islands. Staff Sgt. Stephon Smith, an explosive ordnance ...

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 ...

LAKE PARK — Life spent in hard times and wartime made George Bowdry Mason “a rock” to his family, but never turned his heart to stone. He grew up in West Palm Beach “too poor to buy shoes,” said Terri ...

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 ...