The opening of the North Carolina airfield follows the service’s June recertification of an airfield on the Pacific island of ...

The Battle of Peleliu, as this campaign is called, was fought from September to November 1944, during the Mariana and Palau Campaign of World War II. According to war history researcher Masao ...

USS Franklin (CV-13) would become one of the most decorated Essex-class aircraft carriers to act as a cornerstone in the ...

EMILY FENG, BYLINE: Palauan Godwin Sadao takes me around the World War II ruins on Palau's island of Peleliu. GODWIN SADAO: September 15, 1944, the first Marines come from the water to here.

Richard McBride, left, and Harald Anderson were honored by the Duncombe American Legion in summer of 2018 for 70 years each of service to the American Legion. McBride said he wished he had known ...

One Atomic Veteran who served in World War II recently received his medal eighty years after ... He’s the last known survivor of the Battle of Peleliu, surviving long enough to finally receive a medal ...

EMILY FENG, BYLINE: Palauan Godwin Sadao takes me around the World War II ruins on Palau's island of Peleliu. GODWIN SADAO: September 15, 1944, the first Marines come from the water to here. FENG: ...

But the most poignant land experience comes when we visit Peleliu, a tiny island decimated by Japanese-US combat during World War II. On a cycling tour, we explore bunkers, armaments, crumbling ...