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 ...

Early this year a king tide lifted a shipwreck off the reef at Betio, Tarawa’s westernmost islet, and flung it ashore, piercing a seawall. There it has stayed. The ship has an ironic name ...

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 ...

Robert F. Van Heck, 25, of Chicago, was part of a force that tried to secure the small island of Betio in the Tarawa Atoll of the Japanese-held Gilbert Islands, according to the Defense POW/MIA ...

An underwater volcano off the West Coast could erupt before the end of 2025 ...

The Pentagon had previously deemed the men buried on Tarawa's Betio Island to be "unrecoverable". The Kiribati government gave permission to the group to destroy one abandoned building in order to ...

which landed against stiff Japanese resistance on the small island of Betio in the Tarawa Atoll of the Gilbert Islands in an attempt to secure the island. Related: In Honor of the Service Dog Who ...

For 80 years, the family of a Kansas City 18-year-old killed during WWII was left to wonder what happened to his remains ...