HATTIESBURG, Miss. (WDAM) - After 80 years, a World War II hero finally returns home to the Hub City. Sgt. Harold Hammett V, died on Nov. 20, 1943, while serving his country in the Gilbert Islands at ...
An unaccounted WWII hero is found and will finally be laid to rest by his family. According to the DPAA (The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency) Marine Corps Pfc. Wilbur C. Mattern, 23, of Oelwein, ...
The U.S. Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced that the remains of a U.S. serviceman unaccounted for since World War II had been identified. The body of Marine Pfc. James B. Johnson, of ...
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 ...