Eighty years ago in the South Pacific, Japanese forces withdrew from Guadalcanal Island, the scene of some of the hardest-fought battles during the Pacific War.
The fighting there in the Solomon Islands is viewed as one of the turning points in favor of the Allies led by the United States against Japan in the Pacific theater of World War II.
Several warships were sunk off Guadalcanal, and a Tokyo-based nonprofit organization is resuming its search for these vessels in April.
