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Guadalcanal's Friday 13th

It’s just past midnight on Friday November 13th, 1942. The opening of the battle of Guadalcanal. On board the USS San Francisco is Rear Admiral Daniel Judson Callaghan. The fleet of 13 ships was all ...
Stars and Stripes

Marines mark Guadalcanal’s 83rd anniversary with solemn ceremony on historic ridge

Modern-day Marines paid tribute this month at the site where their predecessors launched the first major U.S. ground offensive against Imperial Japan in World War II. Members of Marine Rotational ...
Honolulu Star-Advertiser

Marines bring fallen comrades home from Guadalcanal 80 years later

Staff Sgt. Stephon Smith carries what are believed to be the remains of a fallen Marine killed in 1942 during the Battle of Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands during a repatriation ceremony at Marine ...
The White House

Presidential Message on 83rd Anniversary of the Battle of Guadalcanal

At dawn on August 7, 1942, thousands of young, fierce, and tenacious American patriots stormed the shores of Red Beach, commencing the epic Battle of Guadalcanal—a roaring display of American might ...