Pfc. Harry LeBert was a young Marine and father of two who — having just recovered from injuries received in the Battle of ...

The legendary life and career of newsman Ernie Pyle was celebrated Friday at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in ...

The Gilbert Islands house the capital, South Tarawa, where more than half of Kiribati's residents live. Tarawa's history is deeply marked by World War II, with remnants of battle still scattered ...

JAMM AQUINO / JAQUINO @STARADVERTISER.COM Chaplin Hurst of the Pacific Air Forces paused in front of Ernie Pyle’s grave site. The Ernie Pyle Legacy Foundation put on the service at the National ...

During World War II, U.S. forces built a major staging ground in Tuvalu—then the British-ruled Ellice Islands—for an assault on Japanese-held Tarawa to the north. Ecologist Ursula Kaly says ...

Pohl had been studying the November 1943 Allied assault on the Pacific island of Tarawa, in which U.S ... the answer is no one," says Olson. World War II war correspondent Robert Sherrod, who ...

Don has a remarkable memory, recalling details of World War II in vivid detail ... helping secure the Solomon Islands. Tarawa is where Don saw day after day of combat, which he didn’t start ...

BETWEEN 1943 and 1945, Tracy Layton’s father landed on the beaches of Tarawa, Saipan, Tinian and Okinawa ... which was where my dad fought in World War II. His name was Joe Goggin. He was in the ...

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