Sgt. Robert F. Van Heck, of Chicago, Illinois, was 25 years old in 1943 when he was killed during the U.S. campaign in the ...

Robert Van Heck's family receieved an ominous letter from the Marine just minutes before learning he was killed, according to ...

The return home for Sgt. Robert Van Heck, who died taking part in the Battle of Tarawa over the Gilbert Islands in November ...

A U.S. Marine who sent an ominous letter home before he went missing in action during World War II ... Pacific, also known as the Punchbowl, in Honolulu. In 2017, one set of remains — labeled as ...

Surviving family members gathered at Queen of Heaven Catholic Mausoleum in Hillside to lay to rest Marine Corps Sgt. Robert F ...

This soldier became the first Hispanic American MOH recipient of WWII. The Japanese occupations in June 1942 on the Aleutian islands of Attu and Kiska, originally planned as a feint to divide the ...

Joe Biden last week became the first U.S. president to honor the young Native Americans known collectively as Hui Panalaau, who sent in the 1930s and ‘40s to secure U.S. claims to a group of remote ...