Seventy-seven years after he was killed on a tiny remote island in the Pacific Ocean, Thomas Johnson is finally coming home. The remains of U.S. Marine Corps Pfc. Johnson will be interred Monday at ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Siwash the Duck during the Battle of Tarawa. (USMC photo) The Battle of Tarawa was 76 hours of pure death and destruction. In 1943 ...

TARAWA --The Republic of Keera-Bass is a nation of 33 islands straddling the equator in the central Pacific Ocean. One of the islands was the scene of a World War II battle. Now there is a mission to ...

HONOLULUHONOLULU — Forensic anthropologist Gregory Fox and his team sifted dirt on the remote Pacific atoll of Tarawa at what they thought might be graves of U.S. Marines and sailors killed in one of ...

From Washington Admiral Ernest J. King signaled: “To all hands concerned with the Marshall Islands operation: Well and smartly done. Carry on.” Said Rear Admiral Richmond Kelly Turner, commander of ...