Rows of American flag-draped coffins rested on pavement cracked by the relentless heat of a tropical summer sun. For decades, the Marines inside the caskets had been deemed "unrecoverable," lost to ...

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 members ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

The remains of a Marine who went missing 73 years ago in World War II’s Battle of Tarawa was to be buried Tuesday with full military honors at Arlington National Cemetery. The remains of Pfc. James B.