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 ...

The 1942 Battle of Santa Cruz, a key naval clash during the Guadalcanal campaign, was a turning point in the Pacific Theater of World War II. As U.S. and Japanese forces fought for control of the ...

MUNDA, Solomon Islands — U.S. Army and Marine Corps Explosive Ordnance Disposal technicians joined together with bomb squad members from other nations to confront and defeat World War II era ...

Japanese and Allied forces waged a savage campaign across the Solomon Islands from 1942 to 1945, in which tens of thousands were killed. They left behind bombs now buried under homes, schools, ...