Tour Road to Tokyo's Guadalcanal gallery with Keith Huxen, PhD, Senior Director of Research and History in the Institute for the Study of War and Democracy. 

Richard Tregaskis’s account of the first seven weeks of fighting is a classic of war literature. 

Museum Distance Learning Manager Chrissy Gregg and Richard Frank, author of Guadalcanal: The Definitive Account of the Landmark Battle, kick off an online learning series dedicated to the 75th anniversary of a pivotal battle in the Pacific war. 

After a Japanese torpedo attack, a heavy cruiser survives to fight again -- with the help of a temporary bow fashioned from a tropical tree trunk. 

Pomroy saw some of the fiercest, most brutal fighting of World War II at Guadalcanal.

The August 1942 landing on Guadalcanal was a colossal improvisation, concocted on the fly to take advantage of a recent dramatic turn in the Pacific war. 
 

The 75th Anniversary of the Battle of Guadalcanal

Part Three: The Final Offenses and Legacy of Guadalcanal

Tenney was a tank commander with the 192nd Tank Battalion, a survivor of the Bataan Death March, and a dear friend of The National WWII Museum.

Dr. Rob Citino highlights the moments of celebration, as well as realization of the repercussions that followed Allied victory and the end of World War II.

In 1945, US forces bounded forward in the central Pacific as combat reached ever bloodier crescendos.

The 75th Anniversary of the Battle of Guadalcanal

Part One: Guadalcanal—An Overview

The 75th Anniversary of the Battle of Guadalcanal

Part Two: The Naval Battles of Guadalcanal