Courage is never a guarantee of success; it is an act of vulnerability in the face of uncertainty," Michael Chancellor says.

A historian will lecture on the Battle of Peleliu, where US Marines suffered their largest number of casualties in WWII.

In late 1944, on the scorching coral island of Peleliu, a single photograph would come to symbolize the unimaginable brutality of the Pacific War. As American forces pushed closer to Japan, Colonel ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Think of the iconic World War II battles in the Pacific. Iwo Jima comes to mind, certainly. So might Guadalcanal and its jungle hell, Gen. Douglas MacArthur's return to the Philippines and the ...

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 ...

150331-N-MB306-080 SAN DIEGO (March 31, 2015) Sailors and family members stand to pay their respects to the parading of the colors during the amphibious assault ship USS Peleliu (LHA 5) ...

The USS Peleliu begins its participation in RIMPAC later this week. But before the ship arrives in Hawaii for the multinational naval exercises, the Peleliu crew conducted burials at sea to honor 22 ...