Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Alexander "Sandy" Bonnyman, Jr. (Marine Corps) After the U.S. Marine raid on Makin Island on Aug. 17-18, 1942, Japanese garrisons ...

TARAWA, Republic of Kiribati — It was the return home they deserved, 74 years after a grateful nation left them behind. In the middle of a tropical airfield on this remote Pacific atoll, a silver C-20 ...

Betio Island, white and wasted at the end of a palmy green bay, was more than ever a base of war. But elsewhere in the Tarawa Atoll the sturdy brown Gilbertese had picked up again an old, familiar ...

LEVELED to shadeless desolation by bombs and bulldozers, the sweltering sand of Tarawa is hallowed ground. Many an embattled place has flared into brief, exclamatory prominence during six years of ...

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 and ...

After the U.S. Marine raid on Makin Island on Aug. 17-18, 1942, Japanese garrisons in the Gilbert and Marshall islands got to serious work reinforcing their commands. These took different natures, ...