GALVESTON, Texas (KTRK) -- Remains found on a tiny South Pacific island where a bloody World War II battle happened have been identified as those of a missing Marine from Galveston, a federal agency ...

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 ...

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.

Betio Island, white and wasted at the end of a palmy green bay, was more than ever a base of war. But elsewhere in the Tarawa Atoll the sturdy brown Gilbertese had picked up again an old, familiar ...

NEW YORK — 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 ...

Marine Corps Sgt. Harold Hammett's family accepted the Purple Heart and Presidential Unit Citation for his service and sacrifice, according to his obituary Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency Marine ...

Four-motored Liberators ranged far out over the Pacific last week, striking at Tarawa Island in the Jap-controlled Gilberts and at Nauru Island 400 miles west. These attacks were called “warmups” by ...

HATTIESBURG, Miss. (WDAM) - After 80 years, a World War II hero finally returns home to the Hub City. Sgt. Harold Hammett V, died on Nov. 20, 1943, while serving his country in the Gilbert Islands at ...

EAST LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- A World War II veteran made his final journey home to Southern California Tuesday after his remains were recently discovered by archaeologists. U.S. Marine Private Jacob ...