Private Richard Gordon Wright, a U.S. Marine killed in the Battle of Tarawa during World War II, has been identified after 80 ...

Thomas Frank Johnson was killed in November 1943 during the Battle of Tarawa.

A new exhibit at The Cradle of Aviation Museum in Uniondale is hoping to attach names to the faces of factory workers who ...

A World War II Marine who was killed in action was interred on Wednesday, July 2, after his remains were identified and ...

Summary and What You Need to Know: During World War II, aircraft carriers revolutionized naval warfare, and several stood out for their significant contributions. HMS Illustrious (87) led the ...

Japan occupied all or part of over 20 countries during World War II. The U.S. and its allies liberated many of the Pacific Islands in hard-fought naval and amphibious battles before ending the war ...

Three years after the campaign in the Gilbert Islands, the 604th Quartermaster Graves Registration Company consolidated the American remains recovered from the Tarawa Atoll and sent them to Hawaii ...

Underwater archaeologists have located the wrecks of three military ships involved in Japan's invasion of Alaska's remote Aleutian Islands in World War II — an almost-overlooked conflict ...

WWII Marine Pfc. Harry LeBert was laid to rest in Louisiana 80 years after his death in the Battle of Saipan. LeBert's ...

The Tarawa was the second Navy ship named for a Pacific island that was the site of a brutal battle fought by Marines in World War II.

John Kinsel Sr., one of the last remaining Navajo Code Talkers who transmitted messages during World War II based on the tribe’s native language, has died. He was 107.

Battle of Attu Attu and the nearby Aleutian island of Kiska were the only parts of North America invaded and occupied by a foreign enemy during World War II, although Japanese warplanes also ...