Althaus, a political science and communications professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, became curious while researching World War II casualties for work. His mother gave him the ...

They confounded Japanese military cryptologists during World War II and participated in all assaults the Marines led in the Pacific from 1942 to 1945, including at Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Peleliu and ...

It took him two years to prove three names deserved space on West Covina’s Veteran’s Memorial. He’s grateful to see it happen ...

One night in 1943, a group of U.S. Marines fighting Japanese forces on Bougainville Island in the South Pacific struggled for hours with using a machine to decode a message from their regiment ...

No World War II battle represents the fighting spirit of the US Marine Corps better than Iwo Jima. In terms of its combat ...