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 ...

Marine Pfc. Royal Waltz — killed Nov. 20, 1943, during the Battle of Tarawa in World War II — was buried in Grangeville Cemetery outside his hometown of Hanford on Monday. His remains were returned to ...

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 ...

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 ...

U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. David Quinn, pictured above, died on Nov. 20, 1943, during the battle of Tarawa in the Pacific Theater of World War II. Quinn's remains have been identified and a burial with ...

He enlisted at 28, died at 29 and never came home. But now Marine Corps Reserve Pfc. Frank L. Athon Jr. is returning to Cincinnati – nearly 80 years after his death in the Pacific in WWII. He was one ...

A woman from California sent an email to The Enquirer back in March saying that her mother had been married to William Carroll Donaldson, who was killed in the Battle of Tarawa on Nov. 20, 1943. “I ...

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