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 ...

got out the first story of the landing on Tarawa—and was threatened with court-martial for writing that “something suddenly appeared to have gone wrong.” He covered eight Marine landings ...

During the 76 hours of violent battle at Tarawa last November the Marines’ beachhead commander, 39-year-old Colonel David M. Shoup, of Battle Ground, Indiana, carefully concealed a painful fact ...

Getty Images A US Marine fires at a Japanese pillbox bunker during the Battle of Tarawa The bodies are believed to belong to the 6th Marine Regiment, which were part of the 18,000 American ...

The Tarawa-class LHAs and Wasp-class LHDs provide the Marine Corps with a means of ship-to-shore movement by helicopter in addition to movement by landing craft. Three LHAs -- which have extensive ...

Wounded in the shoulder and ordered to retire from combat, Pfc. Delbert Tuttle refused to leave his fellow U.S. Marines as ...

Peleliu and Tarawa. This image shows Carl Gorman on the island of Saipan. Image caption, 5/7: Code Talking was immensely successful, giving the US Marines the upper hand in co-ordinating combat ...

Tarawa was the most strongly defended island in the Pacific which the Japanese boasted that a million Americans couldn’t take the island in one hundred years. On Tarawa the Marines faced their ...

Applications for assignment to Marine Corps family housing (DD form 1746) need to be given to the Family Housing Office on Tarawa Terrace, Building TT-43, as soon as a military sponsor knows of an ...

On May 5, 1942, 29 men arrived at Recruit Depot San Diego for basic training in the Marine Corps. They would go on ... forces from Guadalcanal, to Tarawa, Peleliu, and onward to Iwo Jima.