36 Marines returned to U.S. soil together more than 70 years after their deaths. — -- Clay Bonnyman Evans knew all there was to know about his grandfather though the two had never met until that ...

Betio Island, white and wasted at the end of a palmy green bay, was more than ever a base of war. But elsewhere in the Tarawa Atoll the sturdy brown Gilbertese had picked up again an old, familiar ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. BOULDER, Colo. (KDVR) — A Colorado Marine ...

LEVELED to shadeless desolation by bombs and bulldozers, the sweltering sand of Tarawa is hallowed ground. Many an embattled place has flared into brief, exclamatory prominence during six years of ...

Aboard one of the many troop transports plowing the long sea furrows to Tarawa, and later in the hell of Betio, was TIME Correspondent Robert Sherrod. His story: Ship life was dull. The men of the and ...

PENSACOLA, Fla. -- A Florida man's quest to find hundreds of U.S. Marines buried anonymously after one of World War II's bloodiest battles could lead to the largest identification of American war dead ...

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Sgt. Dwight Randall, a Fresno Marine, was killed 75 years ago during the invasion of a Japanese-held island in the Pacific. He was given a belated goodbye on Tuesday. On ...

I’ve long been an aficionado of World War II history, and a sucker for decennial anniversaries. So I didn’t want to let the 80th anniversary of the underappreciated Battle of Tarawa pass unremarked.

NEW YORK — A U.S. Marine who sent an ominous letter home before he went missing in action during World War II has been accounted for over eight decades after he was killed in the Pacific, the Defense ...

WWII historian Alexander (A Higher Call) makes his fiction debut with a rote take on the invasion of Tarawa Atoll. Pvt. Pete “Hardball” Talbot, three months out of basic training, hits the beach with ...