A contemplative masterpiece returns to streaming, offering a stark, lyrical counterpoint to loud, effects-driven war cinema.

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 ...

During the Guadalcanal campaign of World War II, the United States Armed Forces fought the Imperial Japanese Navy to recapture the Solomon Islands in the Pacific. But what started as an amphibious ...

Almost no Marine of the U.S. 1st Marine Division stationed on Guadalcanal — an island 90 miles long and 25 miles wide in the Solomons Archipelago of the South Pacific Ocean — had experienced combat ...

On Nov. 30, 1942, the USS New Orleans was in the middle of a pitched battle off of Guadalcanal. A Japanese torpedo scored a direct hit on the bow of the U.S. Navy cruiser. The blast ignited the ship’s ...

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