YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan — When WWII veteran Leon Cooper returned to Tarawa in 2008, memories of the bloody three-day battle became clear again. Most unforgettable are the hundreds of fallen ...

Officers and personnel of the 2nd U.S. Marine Division who fell in the battle for Tarawa atoll, Gilbert Islands, in November 1943, are buried in this cemetery, shown here on March 20, 1944. Photo by: ...

Nancy Lee was a toddler when the telegram arrived on Christmas Eve in 1943, two years deep into World War II. She was too young to read it but not to sense its impact. Her half-brother Whitey was dead ...

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 ...

For an island frozen in time, the digging has stopped, but the dust hasn’t settled. We've returned to the Pacific atoll of Tarawa, a sandbar the size of the National Mall. The island is filled with ...

More than 3,000 Marines died during the U.S. invasion of the Japanese-controlled island of Tarawa in November 1943. Bill Thorne was one of them -- for a few days, at least. Thorne, 83, still has the ...

Hans von Spakovsky is the manager of the Election Law Reform Initiative and a senior legal fellow in the Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies at The Heritage Foundation. He is the ...

TARAWA, REPUBLIC OF KIRIBATI (WUSA9) — He lay in repose under the ravages of war. A United States Navy sailor remained in a mass grave for 70 years, forgotten, far from the fields of Arlington ...

A Malibu man’s personal crusade to clean up a trash-strewn beach 5,000 miles away will gain national attention this week when it is the focus of a cable television documentary. For more than three ...