At Guadalcanal, many Marines faced the enemy with outdated bolt-action rifles while new technology waited in reserve. This decision shaped the early battles of the Pacific War in unexpected ways.

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Before Guadalcanal, the U.S. Marine Corps made a controversial choice to delay issuing the M1 Garand to frontline troops.

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(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 ...

A U.S. Marine Corps honor guard carries the casket of Pvt. Charmning W. Rowe, a Marine killed during the battle of Guadalcanal. (Staff Sgt. Ethan M. LeBlanc/Marine Corps) Following a decade-long ...