After training, Phillips was assigned to H Company, 2nd Battalion, 1st Marines Regiment, 1st Marine Division ... he participated in the landings on Guadalcanal. Phillips survived four months ...

Two months after the U.S. defeated Japan at the Battle of Midway in June 1942, the U.S. Marines kicked off their Pacific ...

World War II veteran Walt Travis recently celebrated his 101st birthday in style with three celebrations: a private family party, an open house, and a community party at Westmont of […] ...

The defeat stranded the Marines without supplies for about three months on Guadalcanal, which they had invaded to seize an airstrip from the Japanese that could have been used to choke off supply ...