After participating in several landings during the Guadalcanal campaign, on September 27 Munro did not hesitate. "The Marines ...

At 510 pages, it is an alternately fluid and ferocious account of the U.S. Army's brutal campaign in Guadalcanal during World ...

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 ...

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 ...