The World War II soldier lost in battle more than 80 ... He was among the 1,000 Marines and sailors who died that day. Van Heck was buried among the unknowns at a national memorial cemetery ...

A U.S. Marine who sent an ominous letter home before he went missing in action during World War II has been accounted ... In November 1943, Marine Corps Sgt. Robert F. Van Heck, 25, of Chicago ...

Another option – championed by Navy lieutenant commander Andrew Roscoeis in Proceedings, the Navy’s professional journal – is for the Marines to pivot away from World War II-style beach ...

Pfc. Duane Tunnyhill of Omaha was ready to die with his fellow Marines at Iwo Jima. He survived and lived another 80 years to become the last man ...

and Marines, as well as the crews who flew them, the support personnel on the ground and at sea who maintained them, and the people who made these weapons of war on the home front. The legacy of their ...

DECATUR, Ill. (CBS) -- The family of a U.S. Marine from downstate Decatur who served in World War II has been reunited with ...

It would go down as one of the biggest carrier battles of World War II. Japan lost three aircraft carriers and more than 300 planes. On Saipan, the Marines and army faced an enemy well dug-in and ...