The struggle to recapture the Italian peninsula from Axis forces has sometimes been overshadowed by other World War II ...

Current local time in Guadalcanal (Pacific/Guadalcanal timezone). Get information about the Pacific/Guadalcanal time zone. Local time and date, DST adjusted (where ever daylight saving time is ...

Shortly before midnight on New Year's Eve in 1944, German forces launched a major offensive in the mountains of Alsace-Lorraine, France, surging over Allied defenses along the border of France and ...

Shortly before midnight on New Year's Eve in 1944, German forces launched a major offensive in the mountains of Alsace-Lorraine, France, surging over Allied defenses along the border of France and ...

The emergence of the kamikazes on St. Crispin's Day, Oct. 25, 1944, in the Battle of Surigao Strait in World War II was one of the key encounters of the wider Battle of Leyte Gulf. It is by some ...

1944. "The Americans who witnessed these first kamikaze attacks were horrified and shaken, but it was only the beginning," historian James P. Duffy wrote last year for American Heritage magazine ...

In the two carrier-on-carrier battles at Guadalcanal, the Battle of the East Solomon Islands and the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands, victory honours were even. Thus, 20 months later, in June 1944, ...

Airfields were being constructed as the battle was still being fought, but the delay in the start of the Palaus operation meant that the airfields were not ready in time for the start of the ...

On October 20, 1944, General Douglas MacArthur along with thousands of army and naval forces attacked the Japanese held island of Leyte. Shortly after wading ashore with Filipino and American leaders, ...

Troops from the UK, the US, Canada, and France attacked German forces on the coast of northern France, on 6 June 1944. D-Day was the largest military seaborne operation ever attempted, and marked ...