On September 15th, 1944, the U.S. 1st Marine Division landed on the island of Peleliu, expecting a short, brutal assault to capture an airfield. Instead, they encountered a landscape of coral, heat, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Three U.S. Navy warships and an expeditionary force of Camp Pendleton-based Marines trained to extract Americans who get caught up in mob violence overseas departed Monday for a seven-month deployment ...

On July 4th, U-T San Diego will publish a special section that focuses on the long, large and evolving presence of the Navy in San Diego. The package will include a story about the amphibious assault ...

On September 15th, 1944, the U.S. 1st Marine Division landed on the island of Peleliu, expecting a short, brutal assault to ...

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 ...

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 ...

The last Tarawa-class big deck amphibious warship will decommission in a ceremony at Naval Station San Diego on Tuesday ahead of joining the Navy’s inactive reserve fleet in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, the ...

SAN DIEGO (CNS) - Three U.S. Navy warships and an expeditionary force of Camp Pendleton-based Marines trained to extract Americans who get caught up in mob violence overseas departed Monday for a ...