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Growing up, the writer Clay Bonnyman Evans had heard all sorts of stories about his mother’s father, First Lieutenant Alexander Bonnyman Jr. Evans’s grandfather had joined the Marines’ officer ranks ...

BELEN, N.M. — A U.S. Marine from New Mexico who was killed during fighting on a Pacific island during World War II will be buried Friday in his hometown. Pfc. Paul D. Gilman of Belen was 19 in 1943 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When Pfc. J.L. Hancock sat down on Sunday, Nov. 13, 1943, to write a letter home, he hinted that something was up without quite saying it and tried to reassure his family. The vacuum of information to ...

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 ...

CINCINNATI – A Marine from Cincinnati who died during the Battle of Tarawa was accounted for in July, nearly 77 years after he was killed, according to the U.S. Department of Defense POW/MIA ...

The most frustrating thing about South Tarawa, the capital of Kiribati, is its lagoon. Looks like paradise, doesn’t it? My colleagues are probably cursing under their breath right now, wondering how ...