largest and most decorated division of the U.S. Marine Corps — defeated Japanese forces in a turning point of WWII. 1ST TO FIGHT: PACIFIC WAR MARINES, narrated by actor Jon Seda, documents the ...

A U.S. Marine who sent an ominous letter home before he went missing in action during World War II has been accounted for over eight decades after he was killed in the Pacific, the Defense ...

Gunnery Sergeant John Basilone is the only enlisted Marine of the World War II era to receive both the Medal of Honor and ...

John Basilone was killed in action during the battle of Iwo ... as well as the Navy Cross, during World War II. Every Marine who came after Basilone knows his name and his story: A former soldier ...

When World War II Marine Corps hero Gunnery Sgt. John Basilone, who was based at Camp Pendleton, received the Medal of Honor, the country’s highest military award in 1942, he was said to have ...