There is a fairly good chance that you have never heard of the tiny Pacific Island of Peleliu. With its size of approximately ...

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The USS Peleliu is returning Wednesday to Naval Base San Diego from its final deployment before decommissioning, the Navy announced Monday. The 820-foot-long, 25-ton-plus amphibious assault ship will ...

Time flies. Ask any of “The Greatest Generation” survivors of World War II. And it flies for others also. Seventy-five years ago also seems like only yesterday to me. And the nearer a person is to ...

In 1944, the tiny island of Peleliu was the site of the some of the fiercest fighting of World War II, as Marines and Army soldiers fought to seize an airfield carved into its coral rocks. Saturday, ...

Vanessa Raulston said she and Abigail, her 2-year-old, had a picture of her sailor husband next to the bed, and talked to it every night. Starting Christmas Eve, it’ll be the real thing. Just in time ...

The amphibious assault ship Peleliu will return to San Diego on Wednesday, delivering its crew home in time for Christmas and completing its final tour. After 34 years of service, the big-deck ...

It was a bittersweet day on Pier 7 at San Diego Naval Base. The Navy decommissioned a proud warship, the amphibious assault ship Peleliu — the “Iron Nickel” to her crew. No sailor likes to see a Navy ...

The man in the red T-shirt spoke for the third time. The congregation murmurs in displeasure, for the man is obviously drunk. "My third question is actually the same as the first," he says: "Are you ...

The remote island of Peleliu is the most well-preserved WWII battlefield anywhere. The remote island of Peleliu is considered the most well-preserved battlefield in the world. It is illegal to remove ...

The Peleliu Amphibious Ready Group - homeport San Diego - and the Camp Pendleton-based 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit arrived in Hong Kong on Monday for a port visit. 15th MEU commanding officer Col.