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. By Jeff Schogol Published Jul 23, 2024 12:51 PM EDT Good night ...

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 initial landing on Tarawa was chaotic and a near-disaster, with Higgins boats and mechanized tractors getting blasted out of the water or stuck on the coral reef, making them sitting ducks for ...

Siwash the Duck during the Battle of Tarawa. (USMC photo) The Battle of Tarawa was 76 hours of pure death and destruction. In 1943, 18,000 United States Marines duked it out with more than 2,600 ...

More eloquent than words was the camera’s record of the carnage in the Gilberts. Capture of the atolls had cost the U.S.: >1,092 men killed, 2,680 wounded. Most casualties (95%) were marines who fell ...

TARAWA, Kiribati -- On the beach at "Bloody Tarawa," where U.S. Marines died by the hundreds, the broken bottles, crushed boxes and plastic bags are piling up by the millions. Rotting under the ...

The Wasp-class is a U.S. Navy-operated class of landing helicopter, or LHD, amphibious assault ships. Some would even call it a mini aircraft carrier of sorts. Essentially, the Wasp is an upgraded ...

Located in the North Pacific Ocean, the islands of Pohnpei and Kosrae in the FSM are set to receive the East Micronesia Cable System (EMCS) connecting them to Tarawa in Kiribati and Nauru. The 2,250km ...