Two months after the U.S. defeated Japan at the Battle of Midway in June 1942, the U.S. Marines kicked off their Pacific island-hopping campaign. Their first target was Guadalcanal, an island some ...

After a swig of beer the Marine says, 'Well, we had Iwo Jima.' Arching his eyebrows, the sailor replies, 'We had the Battle of Midway. 'Not entirely true', responded the Marine. 'Some of those pilots ...

Over a month into the hellish fight for control of Guadalcanal, then-Marine Lt. Col. Lewis B. "Chesty" Puller ordered ...

more recently of Guadalcanal, knew what he wanted ... Fuller’s plea is a moving radio program called Tell It to the Marines beamed for 15 minutes, five times a week, to all the South Pacific.

On the Pacific island of Guadalcanal in 1942, the famed 1st Marine Division — the oldest, largest and most decorated division of the U.S. Marine Corps — defeated Japanese forces in a turning ...