From Guadalcanal to Okinawa, the Marine Corps earned its reputation for tackling some of the bloodiest battles of World War II’s Pacific Theater. What few remember is that the U.S. Army usually fought ...

Deep within the dense canopy of ancient trees and tangled undergrowth that unfolded over the island of Guadalcanal like a fever dream, there stood a monumental ridge that in 1942 would become the ...

Modern-day Marines paid tribute this month at the site where their predecessors launched the first major U.S. ground offensive against Imperial Japan in World War II. Members of Marine Rotational ...

While America honors Pearl Harbor 84 years ago, World War II veterans E. Paul Ball and Luther Hendricks say the haunting ...

WASHINGTON • Charlie Lockett and John Tilghman heard leaders of the U.S. Senate and House praise them for their courage. They listened to the House chaplain decry the "unrepentant racism" they endured ...

CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. -- Eighty years ago, at the height of World War II, the first Black Marines arrived for basic training at Camp Montford Point, a segregated section of Camp Lejeune. Between 1942 and ...

Anderson Giles, a retired University of Maine at Presque Isle art professor who has dedicated more than 30 years of his life to ...

Carlos Dunn celebrated turning 100 years old Thursday. Dunn was a World War II veteran and was in the United States Marine ...

Veterans celebrate World War II Marine Corp. veteran Robert Childs, 98, of South Yarmouth, whose birthday was Dec. 8.

In June 1775 in Machias, Maine (then part of Massachusetts), townspeople refused to provide the British with lumber to build barracks for their troops, resulting in the British bringing in the armed ...

NEW YORK (AP) — An undersea submersible has spotted crabs, worms and fish thriving on the surfaces of World War II explosives thought to be toxic to marine life. At a former weapons dump site in the ...