At the height of the Pacific War, a strange theory about how long emaciated soldiers would live gained currency among starving Japanese troops fighting U.S. forces on the island of Guadalcanal.

This footage highlights the Guadalcanal Campaign in World War II, where U.S. Marines fought Japanese units. The Battle of Guadalcanal began on August 7, 1942. 5 Potential Kings Head Coach ...

Over two years would pass until the Allies reached their great turning point in the Pacific War: the defeat of the Japanese at Guadalcanal in February 1943. The Japanese were placed on the ...

The following year, in 1942, it was deployed in a battle over Guadalcanal. The ship came under attack from the Allied forces, which crippled its rudder. The Imperial Japanese Navy then scuttled ...

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

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 ...

Since the Japanese controlled nearly every island between the Philippines and Hawaii in 1942, getting to the Philippines meant seizing many of those islands, which included Guadalcanal ...