Admiral Raizō Tanaka leads eight destroyers laden with vital supplies toward Guadalcanal, knowing that without them Japan’s ...

It’s just past midnight on Friday November 13th, 1942. The opening of the battle of Guadalcanal. On board the USS San Francisco is Rear Admiral Daniel Judson Callaghan. The fleet of 13 ships was ...

Trent Hone, author of [Learning War: The Evolution of Fighting Doctrine in the U.S. Navy, 1898-1945], analyzed how U.S. Naval strategies developed during the the Battle of Guadalcanal. Mr. Hone ...

Seventy-five years ago today, 10,000 Marines were thousands of miles from home, capturing Guadalcanal from the Japanese.

To anyone unfamiliar with the Richard Tregaskis book, the picture version may or may not be a faithful adaptation [by Jerry Cady] of the original. But it is without question a painstaking ...

On August 7, 1942 war correspondent Richard Tregaskis took part in the US Marine invasion of Guadalcanal. His experiences became the basis for a book entitled <I>Guadalcanal Diary</i&gt ...

Life has never a dull moment for the Marines on Guadalcanal, site of the important Solomons air base that was wrested from the Japanese a month ago. If the enemy is not attacking, the Marines are ...

In 1992 Guadalcanal veterans who gathered in the Solomon Islands to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the initial American attack on Guadalcanal in World War II were joined by Union-Tribune staff… ...