On January 29, 1943, the USS Waller, fresh from its shakedown cruise, joined Task Force 18 near Rennell Island with a crucial ...

Marine Cpl. John E. Edwinson Jr. comes home to Wilmington. Edwinson was sadly killed in action during World War II on Sept.

Thomas McKelvey Cleaver has, along with this book, written Beneath the Southern Cross, also published by Osprey, a history of air operations against Rabaul that included the Guadalcanal campaign, two ...

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 ...

The American landing on Guadalcanal on Aug. 7 ... Norman Scott stood out for his role in two of the campaign’s most critical naval duels. Born in Indianapolis, Indiana, on Aug. 10, 1889 ...

was one of three tasked with providing air support for the assault on the Solomons and protecting the Navy ships massed off Guadalcanal and Tulagi. The months-long campaign was the first Allied ...

This book describes the air campaign in the Solomons – as well as some of that in New Guinea – starting with the invasion of Guadalcanal in August 1942 and ending with the defeat of Japanese airpower ...

Douglas Dauntless dive-bombers turned the tide of the Pacific War by sinking four Japanese carriers at Midway, and played a crucial role in the Guadalcanal campaign. Tillman, a... Noted aviation ...

Firelock Games will be on Kickstarter later today with their project to expand their War Stories World War II roleplaying ...