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

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 ...

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

The remains of a Marine killed in World War II were identified and are scheduled to be laid to rest Tuesday, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced in a news release last week.

A mussel bed along Northern California's Dillon Beach is as healthy and biodiverse as it was about 80 years ago, when two ...

A U.S. Marine who sent an ominous letter home before he went missing in action during World War II has been accounted for over eight decades after he was killed in the Pacific, the Defense ...

Germany's U-505 submarine was the 1st warship captured by the US Navy in over a century and top secret during World War II.

NEW YORK — A U.S. Marine who sent an ominous letter home before he went missing in action during World War II has been accounted for over eight decades after he was killed in the Pacific ...

HILLSIDE, Ill. (WLS) -- A Chicago marine who died in War World II will finally be laid to rest on Tuesday. Marine Corps Sgt. Robert F. Van Heck, 25, was killed during World War II.