The Battle of Tarawa was the opening campaign of the U.S. drive across the central Pacific during World War II.

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - This week marks the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Tarawa during World War II and a special ceremony Monday commemorated that pivotal battle. More than 1,600 U.S. service ...

(CNN)-- The remains of 30 US Marines and Navy service members lost since a bloody WWII battle in the South Pacific have been found on remote Tarawa Atoll, an organization that recovers lost US service ...

ALBANY, Ind. — A Marine from central Indiana whose remains were identified nearly 77 years after he died on a Pacific island during a World War II battle will be buried at Arlington National Cemetery ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Betio Island — a spit of coral reef at Tarawa equal in size to the Pentagon and its parking lots — had been armed to the teeth with hundreds of concrete pillboxes for machine guns, reinforced-concrete ...

Betio Island, white and wasted at the end of a palmy green bay, was more than ever a base of war. But elsewhere in the Tarawa Atoll the sturdy brown Gilbertese had picked up again an old, familiar ...

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 ...

The American Battle Monuments Commission hosted a ceremony at the Honolulu Memorial, located within the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific at Punchbowl. The ceremony commemorated the 75th ...