Alexandra Bonnyman Prejean, left, of Maui, daughter of Medal of Honor recipient Marine Corps 1st Lt. Alexander Bonnyman Jr., placed a rosette next to her father’s name while retired Army Maj. Gen.

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 ...

The Battle of Tarawa (code name Operation Galvanic) only lasted three days but was listed as one of the bloodiest battles in the 20th century. It was the first American offensive in the central ...

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 ...

TARAWA, KiribatiTARAWA, Kiribati — Master Sgt. James M. Fawcett got on his knees and gently mixed his father’s ashes with sand on the same Pacific beach where the elder Fawcett fought his way ashore ...

CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. (WITN) - Marines at Camp Lejeune paused on Tuesday to remember the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Tarawa. The 2d Marine Regiment started the day with a 10-mile hike and ended ...

Hans von Spakovsky is the manager of the Election Law Reform Initiative and a senior legal fellow in the Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies at The Heritage Foundation. He is the ...

Where: Tarawa Atoll is part of what then was known as the Gilbert Islands and today is called the Republic of Kiribati. It’s a collection of 32 pancake-flat coral atolls. The battle was fought on the ...

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 ...