Battle of tarawa

In three days of intense fighting, more than six and a half thousand American, Japanese and Korean soldiers were killed in the Battle of Tarawa. Many

In three days of intense fighting, more than six and a half thousand American, Japanese and Korean soldiers were killed in the Battle of Tarawa. Many

Pfc. James B. Johnson died in a pitched World War II battle on a Pacific island in 1943, but it was only on Tuesday that his body was laid to rest.

The Battle of Tarawa was one of the more terrible American experiences in the Pacific theater of World War Two. It was one that would shape the future of

Washington-The Prisoner of War/Missing Personnel Office of the Department of Defense recently announced the identification of lost WWII Marine Randolph

The soldiers are believed to have died fighting the Japanese during the three-day Battle of Tarawa.

Images of the American assault on the Gilbert Islands, now Kiribati, show Marines and amphibious vehicles making daring landings as they try to prise the British colony from Japanese hands.

A Controversial Attack By the end of February 1944, Allied forces had gained control of the Marshall Islands in the western Pacific Ocean and moved on to the Marianas, where 20,000 U.S. troops–by far the largest force used in a Pacific operation thus far–put ashore on Saipan on June 15. After fierce resistance by the […]