These long-missing heroes are headed home. A group has uncovered the bodies of 36 U.S. Marines, including a Medal of Honor recipient, who were killed during a fierce fight more than 70 years ago in ...

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 ...

HOBART, Okla. — A Marine who went missing during a World War II battle on a remote Pacific island will be buried next month in his Oklahoma hometown after his remains were identified last year.

More eloquent than words was the camera’s record of the carnage in the Gilberts. Capture of the atolls had cost the U.S.: >1,092 men killed, 2,680 wounded. Most casualties (95%) were marines who fell ...

DES MOINES, Ia. — A Marine from Oelwein who died fighting a World War II battle on a Pacific Ocean island was scheduled to be buried Monday in Arlington National Cemetery near Washington more than 70 ...

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