Bountiful • Marine Pfc. Robert James Hatch received a homecoming fit for a war hero Saturday — even if his return was delayed 76 years. American flags and supporters lined the streets in Bountiful ...
The Battle of Tarawa was the opening campaign of the U.S. drive across the central Pacific during World War II.
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 ...
GALVESTON, Texas — The remains of a U.S. Marine killed on a Pacific island battlefield in 1943 have been identified as a Galveston man, the U.S. military announced this week. Marine Corps Reserve 1st ...
The recent article "From Classroom to Battlefield, The Class of 1942 Remembers World War II," by Judge Charles B. Blackmar '42 (which appeared in the print version of PAW, December 6), poignantly ...
Cincinnati marine killed in WWII finally coming home nearly 80 years after death at Battle of Tarawa
He enlisted at 28, died at 29 and never came home. But now Marine Corps Reserve Pfc. Frank L. Athon Jr. is returning to Cincinnati – nearly 80 years after his death in the Pacific in WWII. He was one ...
Connie Hooper was 4 years old when a Western Union messenger arrived at her grandparents’ Galveston home in December 1943 to inform them that her Uncle Buddy had been killed in action fighting ...
RICHMOND, Ind. — Nearly 77 years after a Marine from Indiana was killed in the South Pacific during World War II his remains will return to his hometown on Thursday. Marine Corps Pfc. Louis Wiesehan ...
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 ...
WASHINGTON (CBSDFW.COM) - The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced Thursday, July 29, Marine Corps Sgt. Fred Farris, 19, of Hillsboro, Texas, killed during World War II, was accounted for on ...
GALVESTON, Texas — The remains of a U.S. Marine killed on a Pacific island battlefield in 1943 have been identified as a Galveston man, the U.S. military announced this week. Marine Corps Reserve 1st ...
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