The fact: the U.S. invasion had compelled the Japanese to ... Two serious threats, a sea attack in late August and a land assault on Guadalcanal in mid-September, were beaten back.

The Wasp was meant to shore up the losses from Pearl Harbor and the battles at Midway and the Coral Sea before leaving to support the invasion of Guadalcanal. It was during this operation that the ...

In six weeks, they would be heading for the Solomon Islands and the unfriendly invasion of Guadalcanal. Locals had to get used to the landing craft crashing through the surf, the roar of Marines ...

This week marks the 80th Anniversary of Operation FLINTLOCK, the invasion of the Marshall Islands ... seen in operations in the Aleutians, Guadalcanal, and Tarawa were resolved.

During the war, Maury participated in many engagements and campaigns across the Pacific, including the Battle of Midway, the invasion of Guadalcanal and Tulagi, the Battle of the Eastern Solomons ...

Guadalcanal was the first step on the way ... Again, they turned the Japanese away from a planned invasion of Midway Island. As Craig Symonds notes in The Battle of Midway, six months after ...

US Navy transport ship USS President Adams, its decks crowded with troops, before the invasion of Guadalcanal, August 4, 1942.PhotoQuest/Getty Images ...

"The World War II Battle of Guadalcanal was the first major invasion and a significant victory for the Allies in the Pacific theatre. Strategically, possession of a Guadalcanal airbase was very ...