More than 80 years after World War II, thousands of bombs, shells and other munitions remain across the islands. As the metal casings corrode, they release toxic heavy metals and explosive chemicals ...

Explosive ordnance technicians from six countries helped remove more than 3,200 World War II-era bombs, shells and bullets from the Solomon Islands this month. Sixty-five U.S. soldiers and Marines ...

Pfc. Norton Retzsch, a Marine Raider from Cincinnati, went missing during a 1943 battle in the Solomon Islands. DPAA used his ...

HONIARA, Solomon Islands, Aug. 29, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Exactly 80 years after the end of World War II in the Pacific, Solomon Islands, site of the Battle of Guadalcanal, is still grappling with a ...

Solomon Islander Dennis Phillip was ploughing his soil by hand when he heard an unusual clunk -- one of the countless unexploded bombs still scattered across the small Pacific nation decades after ...

A group of researchers from the University of New Hampshire uncovered sunken World War II history. The group recently returned from a 21-day expedition surveying and mapping the ocean floor around the ...

A Marine Raider from Cincinnati, missing since a WWII firefight in 1943, was recently identified through DNA analysis.

An international research team has located a Japanese World War II destroyer on the deep seabed off Solomon Islands as the 80th anniversary of the war's end approaches.

Workers at a school in Solomon Islands discovered a buried stockpile of World War II munitions as they "dug a hole for sewage", police said Tuesday.

Solomon Islander Dennis Phillip was ploughing his soil by hand when he heard an unusual clunk -- one of the countless unexploded bombs still scattered across the small Pacific nation decades after ...