The Battle of Tarawa was the opening campaign of the U.S. drive across the central Pacific during World War II.

More than 20 American service members who were killed in a bloody World War II battle are finally back on U.S. soil – and are one step closer to getting the burials they rightfully deserve. An Air ...

Siwash the Duck during the Battle of Tarawa. (USMC photo) The Battle of Tarawa was 76 hours of pure death and destruction. In 1943, 18,000 United States Marines duked it out with more than 2,600 ...

More than 75 years after his death, the body of a 17-year-old Marine has been returned to his home in New Miami, Ohio. Marine Corps Pfc. William Brandenburg was buried with full military honors last ...

FREDERICKSBURG, Va. — The nation’s enduring promise of “no one left behind,” isn’t put on hold because of the global pandemic. Scientists from the Defense POW / MIA Accounting Agency announced the ...

MARINE CORPS BASE CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. – U.S. Marines with 2d Marine Regiment, 2d Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force commemorated the 80th Anniversary of the Battle of Tarawa, at Camp ...

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 ...

Marine Sgt. George E. Trotter, 38, of Kansas City, Missouri, died during the first day of the Pacific Battle of Tarawa, on Nov. 20, 1943. The remains of a Missouri Marine killed during Would War II ...

From the Republic of Kiribati to Hangar 19 at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam the remains of at least 22 veterans of the Battle of Tarawa in World War II were carried by Marine pallbearers Wednesday.

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.

ARLINGTON, Va. — He was buried in a lost grave for two generations – feet from shipwrecks strewn across an azure lagoon, a South Pacific battlefield remembered by the Marine Corps as, "one square mile ...