HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Lacrosse players at Kapiolani Park encountered an unusual sight at around 8 a.m. Sunday morning, after a tour helicopter landed nearby. “Thought it was odd immediately that ...

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Adelaide-based solar panel manufacturer Tindo is supplying Australian-made solar panels to the East Micronesia Cable project to power data cable landing stations in the Pacific nations of Nauru, and ...

Key Points and Summary - The eight-ship Wasp-class landing helicopter dock (LHD) succeeded Tarawa as the Navy–Marine Corps sea base for amphibious assault, crisis response, and disaster relief. -At 40 ...

UDTs came into existence at the end of 1943, in response to a failed landing at Tarawa, due to landing craft getting stuck on an unidentified coral reef, resulting in heavy losses for the Marines. As ...

Winner of an Academy Award in 1945 for Best Documentary Short Subject, this brief (less than 20 minutes) piece provides highly dramatic footage of the 20/22 November 1943 assault by an American ...

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 ...

Marine was landed in Iwo Jima among the initial waves, before the Japanese unleashed a terrible barrage of artillery Cook took cover wherever he could His experience of hand-to-hand combat during WWII ...

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 ...

The remains of a Marine killed in World War II were identified and are scheduled to be laid to rest Tuesday, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced in a news release last week. Sgt. Robert F.