The future USS John Basilone may not have officially joined the Navy’s surface fleet just yet, but the warship is apparently ...
Also known as the Battle of Guadalcanal, the Guadalcanal Campaign saw the United States Marine Corps battle the Japanese beginning on August 7, 1942. The House just voted 'yes' on a bill that ...
Guadalcanal was a six-month campaign where two things were broken: the back of Japan’s naval aviation, and the myth of Japanese superiority in jungle warfare. The book provides much more detail than ...
One notable fact about the Imperial Japanese Army’s combat in southern fronts, including the grueling battle on Guadalcanal ... from Burma (now Myanmar). The campaign required Japanese troops ...
Laudie Joseph Hanel served in the North Dakota National Guard 164th Infantry from 1941 to 1945. After training at Camp ...
The struggle to recapture the Italian peninsula from Axis forces has sometimes been overshadowed by other World War II ...
Eugene Sledge, (Jospeh Mazzello), and GySgt. John Basilone (Jon Seda). The three narrative threads occasionally intersect, and cover events such as the Guadalcanal campaign and the Battles of Cape ...