The Marines, however, modified LVTs with ramps that allowed their men to penetrate the atoll on the northwest. Moreover, the 2nd Marine Division under Maj. Gen. Thomas E. Watson launched a feint that ...

Sgt. Harold M. Weaver is coming home. The Cuyahoga Falls native was killed in action in 1945 while serving with the U.S. Marines at Okinawa, Japan, during World War II. His burial place remained a ...

EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — Once a Marine, always a Marine. A local World War II veteran in hospice was honored by current service members with a special visit Monday. The group of Marines paid a visit to ...

Modern-day Marines paid tribute this month at the site where their predecessors launched the first major U.S. ground offensive against Imperial Japan in World War II. Members of Marine Rotational ...

PHILADELPHIA -- Four families of Montford Point Marines were awarded Congressional Gold Medals Saturday during a celebration at the Corporal Michael J. Crescenz VA Medical Center in Philadelphia. The ...

103-year-old Bristow local and WWII veteran, Joe Ihle, was honored in a surprise gathering by friends and neighbors celebrating his remarkable life and service. BRISTOW, Okla. - At first glance, it ...

IS COMING UP TOMORROW. A CENTURY OF LIFE, COURAGE AND SERVICE IS BEING CELEBRATED IN BULLITT COUNTY. A WORLD WAR TWO MARINE VETERAN TURNED 100 YEARS OLD TODAY. WLKY’S JOYCE OGIRRI TAKES US INSIDE THE ...

PICATINNY ARSENAL, N.J. - This Thanksgiving marks the 75th Anniversary of one of the most grueling and hard-fought battles in the history of the military of the United States. A force of nearly ...

Five area men were among the more than 1,000 killed in a surprise World War II German attack on an Allied port in Italy that ...