Eighty years after some of World War II’s fiercest battles, unexploded bombs still endanger communities across the Solomon Islands. The HALO Trust and local authorities are racing to clear tens of ...
Explosive ordnance technicians from six countries helped remove more than 3,200 World War II-era bombs, shells and bullets from the Solomon Islands this month. Sixty-five U.S. soldiers and Marines ...
A former schoolteacher armed with a radio and a force of Solomon Islander scouts became one of World War II's most legendary coastwatchers, killing more than 50 Japanese soldiers and providing ...
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 ...
MUNDA, Solomon Islands — U.S. Army and Marine Corps Explosive Ordnance Disposal technicians joined together with bomb squad members from other nations to confront and defeat World War II era ...
(Reuters) - The battle fields of Guadalcanal, in the Solomon Islands, draw visitors from the United States and its war allies, as well as those from Japan, decades after the bloody campaign in the ...
National Geographic Explorer-at-Large Bob Ballard revisits the Iron Bottom Sound—rediscovering vessels, and making new finds. The IJN Teruzuki fought fiercely in the first and second naval battles of ...
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