(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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Alexander "Sandy" Bonnyman, Jr. (Marine Corps) After the U.S. Marine raid on Makin Island on Aug. 17-18, 1942, Japanese garrisons ...

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 ...

When we landed in Tarawa, a tiny atoll in the middle of the vast Pacific Ocean, after a 24-hour trip from Los Angeles, the plane windows were soaked with rain. I had been warned that the island would ...

With two captured Japanese naval guns as a backdrop, a lone U.S. Marine is patroling the beach at Tarawa atoll, Dec. 6, 1943, during the invasion of Gilbert Islands in World War II. (AP Photo) ...

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 ...

A Florida man's quest to find hundreds of U.S. Marines buried anonymously after one of World War II's bloodiest battles could lead to the largest identification of American war dead in history.

A Malibu man’s personal crusade to clean up a trash-strewn beach 5,000 miles away will gain national attention this week when it is the focus of a cable television documentary. For more than three ...