A line in Australian coast watcher Martin Clemens’ diary for Aug. 7, 1942, reads, “Oh! What a day!” On that day, Clemens saw many of the almost 19,000 U.S. Marines from 82 ships jump out of crude ...

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 ...

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PRINCETON – He’s 94 years old and it’s been 70 years since the Marines stormed Guadalcanal. But Nikolai Stevenson has vivid memories. He can still see the Japanese officer he shot dead after the ...

U.S. Marines, with full battle kits, charge ashore on Guadalcanal Island from a landing barge during the early phase of the U.S. offensive in the Solomon Islands in Aug. 1942, during World War II. For ...

Gen. Merrill Twining of the Marine Corps, who helped plan the landing on Guadalcanal in World War II and later fought in the Korean War, died last Saturday in a hospital in Fallbrook, Calif., where he ...

Editor's note: Paul Sparrow is director of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum. He wrote this reflection on the importance of Guadalcanal for the 75th anniversary of the U.S.