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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

(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 ...

From Lesvos to the Solomon Islands, a chance detour to Honiara leads to unexpected friendships, WWII history and a soul-stirring visit to Hotomai Cultural Village, revealing the Pacific’s quiet, ...

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 ...