More than 7,000 Marines were killed and 20,000 wounded during the historic battle from Feb. 19 to March 26, 1945, when ...

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 ...

The Marines recently landed their first fixed wing aircraft on a recertified airfield on the Pacific island of Peleliu, which jarheads captured after brutal combat in 1944. The KC-130J Super ...

Join WECT as we celebrate Black History Month by highlighting some of the people, places, and events that shaped black ...

Last week, hundreds of people traveled to Shrub Oak, New York to attend the funeral of Robert Graham, a 97-year-old veteran who served in the Pacific as a Marine Raider during World War II.

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 ...

No one was going to keep young Duane Tunnyhill from fighting in World War II, wearing the uniform of the United States Marines. But the Omaha lad had a big problem. Even after his 17th birthday ...

“There was just something about being a Marine even to this day that kind of sets us apart,” he said. Trivette served stateside in World War II, doing administrative work and helping to assign ...

The Foundation has assembled a team of subsea oil engineers, marine archaeologists and historians to address the risks presented by WWII shipwrecks. Their approach starts with intensive research ...