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Death of IJN battleship Kirishima: Second naval battle of Guadalcanal, 1942 - Animated
After the fierce fighting in the First Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, where the Japanese lost their first battleship, Hiei, both sides took heavy casualties but neither could claim full control. No side ...
The American landing on Guadalcanal on Aug. 7, 1942 and subsequent seizure of the airbase they would name Henderson Field marked the first American offensive in the wake of the Dec. 7, 1941 Japanese ...
Modern-day Marines paid tribute this month at the site where their predecessors launched the first major U.S. ground offensive against Imperial Japan in World War II. Members of Marine Rotational ...
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Guadalcanal - Allies take the initiative
The Axis Forces are on the move on the Eastern Front and in the Caucasus, but this week the Allies begin an offensive of their own: this week come Allied landings and attacks on Guadalcanal and nearby ...
About 80 years after the end of one of the bloodiest battles in World War II, unexploded wartime ordnance that remain on Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands threaten to add to the casualties. But Japan ...
A former schoolteacher armed with a radio and a force of Solomon Islander scouts became one of World War II's most legendary ...
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — After dying on a distant battlefield more than 70 years ago, a Montgomery hero is returning home. U.S. Army Air Forces Maj. Peyton S. Mathis Jr., 28, died June 5, 1944, when the ...
At dawn on August 7, 1942, thousands of young, fierce, and tenacious American patriots stormed the shores of Red Beach, commencing the epic Battle of Guadalcanal—a roaring display of American might ...
The Pacific, 1942: They were young men, a year removed from their stateside fraternity houses and university lecture halls. Charles "Red" Kendrick spent his 16th birthday in the shadow of Stanford’s ...
Peter Richmond is a good man, loyal friend, and a gifted writer. Here he is at his best, writing about his father for GQ in December of 1993. The article was the genesis of Richmond's beautiful memoir ...
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