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 ...

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 ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — All she knows is a few stories — stories that reach back more than seven decades. They are stories of the hijinks of Harold V. Thomas and Robert Thomas when they played as kids in ...

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 ...

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A lieutenant commander in the Medical Corps, Donald R. Nelson, describes the Battle of Tarawa to his parents in a letter home. The Battle of Tarawa was held Nov. 20-23, 1943: December 18, 1943 Dear ...

Siwash the Duck during the Battle of Tarawa. (USMC photo) The Battle of Tarawa was 76 hours of pure death and destruction. In 1943, 18,000 United States Marines duked it out with more than 2,600 ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON, DC (WTHR) - The remains of a U.S. serviceman from Greencastle who died in World War II are coming home. Navy Reserve Pharmacist’s Mate 2nd Class Thomas J. Murphy, will be buried May 28 in ...