America’s island-hopping strategy in the Pacific grew from decades of planning, rivalry, and hard lessons about distance, ...

Author Susanne Gervay OAM has travelled the world, but it's Kiribati — a wedding with strangers, mangrove planting and ...

The Republic of Kiribati, a Pacific island nation, is a remote paradise with its pristine beaches and rich marine life ...

EMCS is a submarine cable spanning about 2,250 km, connecting three countries and four islands in the Pacific island region – namely the Federated States of Micronesia, Kiribati, and Nauru. It ...

Sixty-eight years ago today, a young Marine sergeant leaned against the flying bridge rail of a Navy ship off the coast of the Tarawa Atoll in the South Pacific. Awestruck, Staff Sgt. Norman T. Hatch ...

In November 1943, the US assaulted Tarawa as the opening strike of the central Pacific drive against a heavily fortified garrison. A lower-than-expected tide stranded landing craft on exposed reefs, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Alexander "Sandy" Bonnyman, Jr. (Marine Corps) After the U.S. Marine raid on Makin Island on Aug. 17-18, 1942, Japanese garrisons ...