SYDNEY -- For four years, Solomon Islander Maeverlyn Pitanoe has woken up every day in pain. On Mother's Day in 2021, an unexploded World War II artillery shell suddenly went off beneath a barbecue ...
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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 ...
Police in Solomon Islands say a large explosion that rocked the nation's capital overnight was caused by an old World War II ...
The 1942 Battle of Santa Cruz, a key naval clash during the Guadalcanal campaign, was a turning point in the Pacific Theater ...
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 ...
Four years after surviving a World War II bomb explosion at Lengakiki, Central Honiara, one of the victims is still waiting for government assistance or compensation. Maeverlyn Kabolo Pitanoe, one of ...
MUNDA, Solomon Islands — Explosive ordnance disposal technicians from the United States, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Japan, and South Korea began arriving in Solomon Islands the end of August 2024 ...