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 ...

During the ferocious battle, Alexander Bonnyman led a 21-man demolition team against the main bomb-proof shelter on Tarawa.

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 ...

CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. (WITN) - Marines at Camp Lejeune paused on Tuesday to remember the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Tarawa. The 2d Marine Regiment started the day with a 10-mile hike and ended ...

As it Happened: Tarawa chronicles the pivotal World War II battle of Tarawa through archival footage, interviews, and expert analysis, providing a comprehensive account of the intense combat and its ...

WASHINGTON (WUSA9) — Seven decades later, American WWII servicemembers remain in unmarked, forgotten graves. They’re halfway across the world – some 7,200 miles from the hallowed ground of Arlington ...

TARAWA, Republic of Kiribati — It was the return home they deserved, 74 years after a grateful nation left them behind. In the middle of a tropical airfield on this remote Pacific atoll, a silver C-20 ...

Howard P. Brisbane was a Navy medic killed during World War II, lost in the fierce Pacific fighting of the Battle of Tarawa. Brisbane’s family knew he died on the beaches of a remote island, but they ...

HILLSIDE, Ill. — The remains of a Marine who died fighting in the Pacific Theater during World War II were buried with honors in Hillside Tuesday. The return home for Sgt. Robert Van Heck, who died ...