Life in Kiribati is influenced by its remote location, high disease burden and the worsening impacts of climate change. The ...

(WHTM) — abc27 salutes Richard H. Novinger. Of Loysville, he served in World War II from 1942 to 1945. He served in the Gilbert Island, Kwajalein, Tarawa and Okinawa Invasions. After World ...

As the American offensive prepared to claim the coral atoll of Tarawa in November of 1943, they were confident that their more potent force and resources would be enough to defeat the outnumbered ...

The brothers fought with the Marines in a fierce assault against the Japanese Army on Betio, part of the Tarawa atoll in the Pacific. Justin Lehew, a retired Marine, is now chief operating officer ...

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation's international radio service, ABC Radio Australia is now available on 92.3FM for residents across the Tarawa atoll in the central Pacific island nation.

Betio Island — a spit of coral reef at Tarawa equal in size to the Pentagon and its parking lots — had been armed to the teeth with hundreds of concrete pillboxes for machine guns, ...

Three years after the campaign in the Gilbert Islands, the 604th Quartermaster Graves Registration Company consolidated the American remains recovered from the Tarawa Atoll and sent them to Hawaii ...

The former amphibious transport dock Dubuque and amphibious assault ship Tarawa were sent 15,000 feet under July 11 and 19, respectively, as part of the 2024 Rim of the Pacific exercise, or RIMPAC.

The USS Tarawa — a venerable, decommissioned amphibious assault ship that was a fixture in San Diego for decades — was sunk by a missile as a part of war games off Hawaii on Friday, the Navy said.

An F/A-18-fired anti-ship missile was used to sink the former amphibious assault ship on July 19 during Exercise Rim of the Pacific 2024. Named for a famous World War II battle, the Tarawa is the ...