This year, the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps mark their 250th anniversaries and Philadelphia, the city where both branches were born in 1775, is welcoming them home with history, memory and pride. On ...

Marine Park was originally part of the town of Flatlands and kept major development away until the 20th century when developers began to buy land in the Jamaica Bay area in anticipation of the ...

On Aug. 17, 1942, a party of 211 United States Marines landed on the Japanese-occupied Makin Atoll in the Gilbert Islands. Their objectives, multiple: destroy local installations, take two or more ...

Every Nov. 10, Marines worldwide gather to cut birthday cakes with Mameluke swords, listen to the reading of a nearly century-old order, and watch the oldest Marine hand a piece of cake to the ...