John Breckenridge’s military legacy was borne in war on the South Pacific island of Guadalcanal in 1942. A pragmatic thinker ...

Marvin Rhodes holds a photograph of his late brother, Luther, as he and other family members pose for a photograph Thursday. The family gathered this week to learn more about Luther’s death during ...

It's a big week, but by now they all are. The fighting in Stalingrad is intense, the fighting on Guadalcanal is intense, and ...

In June 1940, Foss hitchhiked 300 miles to Minneapolis to enlist in the Marine Corps Reserve so he could join the Naval ...

The USS Saufley served in many WWII missions, conducting anti-shipping sweeps, escorting reinforcements, and providing shore ...

The campaign began on June 3 and 4, 1942, when Japanese aircraft launched air attacks against the U.S. naval base at Dutch ...

On the humid night of August 21, 1942, the Marines of the 1st Battalion dug in along the Tenaru River, aware that Colonel Ichiki’s elite Japanese 28th Infantry Regiment was preparing a deadly strike.

Kathy Kinane of Camillus said her dad, Ken Budd, and her uncle, Robert, had a “wonderfully close” brotherly connection. Though he was ten years younger, Ken idolized his older brother. “My uncle would ...

For eight agonizing months, Alleta Sullivan clung to the slimmest of hopes that her five sons somehow survived the sinking of the USS Juneau in late 1942. When Navy Secretary Frank Knox officially ...

IJN Teruzuki. Credit: Ocean Exploration Trust. An international team of scientists has completed one of the most detailed surveys ever of historic shipwrecks from World War II, revealing new details ...