Howard P. Brisbane was a Navy medic killed during World War II, lost in the fierce Pacific fighting of the Battle of Tarawa. Brisbane’s family knew he died on the beaches of a remote island, but they ...
Sixty years ago, on Nov. 20, 1943, the U.S. 2nd Marine Division came ashore there to seize Tarawa, in World War II's first major amphibious assault on heavily fortified Japanese positions. The Marines ...