Pvt. Luther Rhodes was deemed "unrecoverable" after the World War II battle until last year, when improved DNA technology ...

A U.S. Marine Corps honor guard carries the casket of Pvt. Charmning W. Rowe, a Marine killed during the battle of Guadalcanal. (Staff Sgt. Ethan M. LeBlanc/Marine Corps) Following a decade-long ...

Rare and classic photos from Guadalcanal -- and the story behind one of the most unsettling photos from any war, anywhere ...

On August 7, 1942, U.S. Marines landed on Guadalcanal and two other islands in the Solomons, in America's first Pacific offensive of World War II. The epic, six-month struggle for Guadalcanal would ...

In this July 18, 2107 photo, Harold Berg, right, 92, talks with a friend at Berg's home in Peoria, Ill. Berg is one of the few Marine Raiders still living who fought in the battle of Guadalcanal in ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The American landing on Guadalcanal on Aug. 7, 1942 and subsequent seizure of the airbase they would name Henderson Field marked ...

Editor’s note: This is the fifth part of Janet Landfried’s series on a trip to the South Pacific. We sailed into Kieta harbor on the island of Bougainville in a light rain. The harbor pilot arrived in ...

Those intrigued by the mystery of the waters are invited to join explorers this month on Ocean Exploration Trust’s Exploration Vessel Nautilus for the virtual 21-day Maritime Archaeology of ...