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 ...

Robert Van Heck's family receieved an ominous letter from the Marine just minutes before learning he was killed, according to ...

Rear Adm. Harry Hill, who command the task force attacking Tarawa, called Betio "a little Gibraltar" and said "only the Marines could have made such a landing." Four Marines were awarded the Medal ...

Every time Marine veteran Billy Hall shared the story of his military service across three wars, he ended it by telling those who thanked him for his service, “You were worth it.” Hall, of Orange, who ...

The Tarawa-class LHAs and Wasp-class LHDs provide the Marine Corps with a means of ship-to-shore movement by helicopter in addition to movement by landing craft. Three LHAs -- which have extensive ...

Leading his battalion of the 8th Marines into another beachhead landing ... Jim Crowe lasted through Tarawa before he got his Purple Heart, added it to his Silver Star (Guadalcanal), Navy ...

Fellow Marines buried Cavin on the islet of Betio, part of the secluded Tarawa atoll. But his body and gravesite were lost for two generations. RELATED: Fallen & Forgotten: Why were these missing ...

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