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 ...
Following a decade-long recovery and identification mission led by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency — and more than 80 years since he was killed in the hellish Guadalcanal campaign — U.S. Marine ...
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 ...
Saturday’s local event for the Marines Corps coincides with another round of “No Kings” marches in San Diego and nationwide.
1846: U.S. Marines and Navy sailors take possession of San Diego during the early months of the Mexican-American War. Two ...
When 20-year-old Charmning Willie Rowe joined the military to fight alongside his brother in World War II, it wasn’t because he was drafted but because he wouldn’t take no as an answer. Time after ...
Every time Marine veteran Billy Hall shared the story of his military service across three wars, he ended it by telling those who thanked him for his service, “You were worth it.” Hall, of Orange, who ...