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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 ...

Betio Island — a spit of coral reef at Tarawa equal in size to the Pentagon and its parking lots — had been armed to the teeth with hundreds of concrete pillboxes for machine guns, reinforced-concrete ...

A U.S. Marine who sent an ominous letter home before he went missing in action during World War II has been accounted for over eight decades after he was killed in the Pacific, the Defense Department ...

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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 ...

HATTIESBURG, Miss. (WDAM/Gray News) - A sergeant from Mississippi was finally laid to rest 80 years after his death in World War II. Sergeant Harold Hammett left Hattiesburg for San Francisco in 1940.

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.

Over three days of intense fighting, thousands of soldiers died on beaches and in the ocean for a prize — a strategic speck of coral sand and its critical air strip, in the middle of the Pacific — ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - The U.S. Coast Guard Hawaii Pacific helped rescue three fisherman who were missing for over 80 hours in waters off Kiribati. Officials said the men were found 63 nautical ...

The Betio Coastwatchers memorial to New Zealanders killed on the island in the Second World War, Tarawa, Kiribati, pictured in 2010. Photo / NZPA Eighty years since the Second World War, up to 100 ...