The National Museum of the Pacific War invites the public to experience “Road to Victory: Tarawa” on Saturday, Oct. 4, with presentations at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m.

The National Museum of the Pacific War invites the public to experience “Road to Victory: Tarawa” on Saturday, October 4, 2025, with presentations at 11:00 a.m. and ...

Norm Hatch was only 22 years old, but even at that young age he could see that the invasion of Tarawa was one of the most critical assignments — perhaps the most critical — in the proud history of the ...

ARLINGTON, Va. (WUSA9) — After 72 years buried under feet of crushed coral in an old shipyard, Private Robert Carter is finally home. RELATED: Marine awarded heroism medal for pulling comrade from ...

I’ve long been an aficionado of World War II history, and a sucker for decennial anniversaries. So I didn’t want to let the 80th anniversary of the underappreciated Battle of Tarawa pass unremarked.

PEARLAND, Texas (KTRK) -- After eight decades, a U.S. Marine from Houston was brought home for a proper burial after being killed during World War II. ABC13 was the only one there when Pfc. John ...

MARINE CORPS BASE CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. – U.S. Marines with 2d Marine Regiment, 2d Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force commemorated the 80th Anniversary of the Battle of Tarawa, at Camp ...

On Lawrence Earl Garrison’s first day of battle in November 1943, he joined nearly 35,000 Marines on the atoll of Tarawa in an attempt to seize the Japanese-held Gilbert Islands in the central Pacific ...

Iraq, March 2003: Amid a gusting sandstorm, Marines fire 60mm mortars north of An Nasiriyah, Iraq. he Marines are part of Task Force Tarawa made up from units from the 1st Marine Division and the 2nd ...

Siwash the Duck during the Battle of Tarawa. (USMC photo) The Battle of Tarawa was 76 hours of pure death and destruction. In 1943, 18,000 United States Marines duked it out with more than 2,600 ...

WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--SnagFilms, one of the world’s leading distributors of independent films to digital platforms, will present Return to Tarawa: The Leon Cooper Story, throughout Memorial Day ...