... but we're sure glad he's got them now." Ryan's division was created on the island of Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands in September 1944, about six months after Ryan entered service. "I went down to Little Rock to join the Navy ...

... before he could be part of it. He served as a gunner in two-seat dive bombers, flying more than 50 missions in the Solomon Islands and the Philippines. "I was just along for the ride and to strafe," Hilliard said in an interview with The Associated ...

... was stationed in North Carolina when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. He was moved to New Zealand, then to the Solomon Islands. In May of 1941 he married Willie Stroble. He had met her on a blind date while home on leave a year earlier. Metheny ...

In one of his books, Robert Fulghum talks about villagers in the Solomon Islands who practice a unique form of logging. If a tree is too large to be felled with an ax, the natives cut it down by yelling at ...

... boat," Kennedy said. Kennedy's boat was leading three other boats on patrol through the Blackett Strait in the Solomon Islands during the early morning hours of August 2, 1943, when the Japanese destroyer Amagiri hit the boat. Although many ...

... October 1943, U.S. forces, having defeated the Japanese at Guadalcanal, were slogging through the rest of the Solomon Islands. But unbeknownst to most, America's ultimate triumph was being secured back home in the United States, in well ...

... PT-109, commanded by Lt. John F. Kennedy, sank after being rammed by the Japanese destroyer Amagiri off the Solomon Islands. (The future president was credited with saving members of the crew; he was awarded the Navy and Marine Corps Medal ...

... 1921, the United States signed a peace treaty with Germany. In 1943, U.S. forces overran New Georgia in the Solomon Islands during World War II. In 1944, Romania declared war on Germany. In 1950, President Truman ordered the Army to seize ...

... PT-109, commanded by Lt. John F. Kennedy, sank after being rammed by the Japanese destroyer Amagiri off the Solomon Islands. In 1964, the Pentagon reported the first of two attacks on U.S. destroyers by North Vietnamese torpedo boats ...

... 1921, the United States signed a peace treaty with Germany. In 1943, U.S. forces overran New Georgia in the Solomon Islands during World War II. In 1944, Romania declared war on Germany. In 1950, President Truman ordered the Army to seize ...