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Aboard one of the many troop transports plowing the long sea furrows to Tarawa, and later in the hell of Betio, was TIME Correspondent Robert Sherrod. His story: Ship life was dull. The men of the and ...

BELEN, N.M. — A U.S. Marine from New Mexico who was killed during fighting on a Pacific island during World War II will be buried Friday in his hometown. Pfc. Paul D. Gilman of Belen was 19 in 1943 ...

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 ...

More eloquent than words was the camera’s record of the carnage in the Gilberts. Capture of the atolls had cost the U.S.: >1,092 men killed, 2,680 wounded. Most casualties (95%) were marines who fell ...

Marine Sgt. George E. Trotter, 38, of Kansas City, Missouri, died during the first day of the Pacific Battle of Tarawa, on Nov. 20, 1943. The remains of a Missouri Marine killed during Would War II ...

When Pfc. J.L. Hancock sat down on Sunday, Nov. 13, 1943, to write a letter home, he hinted that something was up without quite saying it and tried to reassure his family. The vacuum of information to ...

The most frustrating thing about South Tarawa, the capital of Kiribati, is its lagoon. Looks like paradise, doesn’t it? My colleagues are probably cursing under their breath right now, wondering how ...