More than 80 years after he was killed in action during World War II, U.S. Marine Corps Pfc. Morris E. Canady has returned ...

Naval Air Station Wildwood Aviation Museum has announced the upcoming arrival of a Marine Corps icon: an AV-8B Harrier II+ ...

In November 1942, a scenario played out in Wakefield that resembled the script of a Hollywood movie. The main characters were ...

Their objective was to protect Henderson Field, the linchpin of Allied control ... one of the most savage naval engagements of World War II—an infernal melee of close-range gunfire and chaos ...

The Imperial Japanese Navy’s Mutsuki was a veteran destroyer by the time World War II erupted in the ... the fierce battles around Guadalcanal, where an attack on Henderson Field left her ...

He is the only enlisted Marine of the World War II era to receive both prestigious ... fire to resupply his gunners during Guadalcanal's Battle for Henderson Field in Oct. 1942.

which marks the 80th anniversary of Basilone’s heroic sacrifice at Iwo Jima and the start of one of the pivotal battles of World War II. At Guadalcanal’s Battle for Henderson Field in October ...

Among the earliest American multi-aces, Jim Swett was credited with seven aerial victories amid a turning point in World War II — and would ... a satellite of Henderson Field on Guadalcanal.

That experience was on full display on the evening of Oct. 25, 1942, when the U.S. military’s months-long struggle to hold the strategically important Henderson Field at Guadalcanal came to a ...

Her 19 Long Island-built Grumman F4F Wildcat fighter planes and 12 Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bombers were the first planes to reach liberated Henderson Field. Following V-J Day, the Long Island ...

King’s sister, Lucille King LaBonte, and their father Edmond LaBonte, also a World War II veteran — learned the uncle they ... after a U.S. amphibious assault landed and secured Henderson Field, an ...