The first American invasion force of the Second World War gathered off the coast of Guadalcanal Over 19000 young Marines prepared for a mission that many regarded as impossible against the ...

Operation Watchtower by American forces was a military campaign fought between 7 August 1942 and 9 February 1943 on and around the island of Guadalcanal in the Pacific theatre of World War II It ...

In the night of November 14-15, 1942, the USS Washington (BB-56) played head-swellingly big in the Second Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, which wrote the momentous history of a Pacific war.