Gunnery Sergeant John Basilone’s extraordinary heroism in World War II, from Guadalcanal to Iwo Jima, stands as a powerful ...

On Memorial Day, we remember the likes of John Basilone to honor his sacrifice and to remind us of the blood and toil that ...

This Memorial Day, you could have done much worse than remember John Basilone. Eighty years ago, the U.S. military was grinding it out from one Japanese-held Pacific island to another in a brutal, ...

This Memorial Day week, you could do much worse than remember John Basilone. Eighty years ago, the US military was grinding ...

Those in the audience were reminded that they live in the “best country, state and city in the world” because of the soldiers ...

Bob Booth Special to the Star-Telegram United States Marine Corps Gunnery Sgt. John Basilone was awarded a medal of honor for his extraordinary heroism in combat at Guadalcanal Solomon Islands in ...

From there, he was deployed to the battle of Guadalcanal in 1942 and engaged in a fight with a Japanese unit that had more ...

HILLSBOROUGH – Team Rocky knocked off Team Otto 21-7 Wednesday night in the first Shaun O’Hara Foundation Senior Bowl at Hillsborough High School. That was the fun and easy part. The No. 1 ...

He’d been, as Gen. Douglas MacArthur put it later, a “one man army.” Nash Phillips, a private who was wounded in the fight, ...

He was a true hero, a man who fought and sacrificed his life for the true cause of freedom in World War II. He served twice in the Army and then enlisted in the Marines. He was from Raritan ...

Fantastic article by Mr. Lowry on Gunnery Sgt. John Basilone. He was the stuff this country was founded on. They should teach ...