The 1942 Battle of Santa Cruz, a key naval clash during the Guadalcanal campaign, was a turning point in the Pacific Theater ...

Sergeant John Basilone and his unit were facing relentless fire from the Japanese forces during the Battle for Henderson ...

It took 83 years, but PVT Robert J. Budd is finally home. The Marine, who was killed in World War II, in the Guadalcanal ...

Almost no Marine of the U.S. 1st Marine Division stationed on Guadalcanal — an island 90 miles long and 25 miles wide in the Solomons Archipelago of the South Pacific Ocean — had experienced combat ...

National Geographic Explorer-at-Large Bob Ballard revisits the Iron Bottom Sound—rediscovering vessels, and making new finds.