Combat welder? There is a classification in both the United States Army and the US Navy today, but in the South Pacific ...

Joe Foss received the Medal of Honor for his actions as a Marine Corps fighter pilot during the Guadalcanal campaign in 1942 ...

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In September 1942, Japanese forces launched massive nighttime assaults to retake Henderson Field on Guadalcanal. Outnumbered ...

During the ferocious battle, Alexander Bonnyman led a 21-man demolition team against the main bomb-proof shelter on Tarawa.

Marvin Rhodes holds a photograph of his late brother, Luther, as he and other family members pose for a photograph Thursday. The family gathered this week to learn more about Luther’s death during ...

It has been 82 years since Staff Sgt. Nicholas J. Governale crashed into the sea off the coast of Guadalcanal. Now, the ...

In June 1940, Foss hitchhiked 300 miles to Minneapolis to enlist in the Marine Corps Reserve so he could join the Naval ...

Harrison Kass’s recent piece recommending the abolition of the Marine Corps argues that the corps is a redundant relic that should be subsumed by the Army. This zombie idea, reanimated for clicks in ...

A Marine Air Defense Integrated System, or MADIS, fires at an unmanned aircraft system during its first live-fire training exercise at Pohakuloa Training Area, Hawaii, in January. (Sgt. Jacqueline C.