2017-09-10T13:59:52-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/02f/20170910140617003_hd.jpgRick Jacobs marked the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Guadalcanal by talking ...

From Guadalcanal to Okinawa, the Marine Corps earned its reputation for tackling some of the bloodiest battles of World War II’s Pacific Theater. What few remember is that the U.S. Army usually fought ...

There is pride of place in his shared nursing home room for the Honor Flight New England Certificate. It documents his June 17 chartered trip with other veterans to the war memorials in the nation's ...

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 ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: War is a business of positions. There are three big ideas that come out of studying the Solomon Islands campaign. First of all, the physical setting may impel strategic ...

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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 ...

Key Point: China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has sought to remedy its lack of actual combat experience by the careful study of military history. By contrast, the U.S. military has been at war ...

PEORIA, Ill. (AP) — When Harold Berg stepped onto the white beach of Guadalcanal in late July, he carried memories of the battle he participated in 75 years ago, and also of his buddies he left behind ...

"There are no ordinary lives," said Ken Burns of those who served in a global cataclysm so momentous that the filmmaker simply titled his 2007 documentary "The War." Many who served in so many ...

The tale of how more than 120 million books found their way to WWII soldiers came rushing back with the latest release from Field Notes.