BRIDGEWATER – When the Bridgewater-Raritan Regional School District celebrates the reopening of Basilone Field later this month, there will be a special ceremony to remind people of the World War II ...
When World War II Marine Corps hero Gunnery Sgt. John Basilone, who was based at Camp Pendleton, received the Medal of Honor, the country’s highest military award in 1942, he was said to have ...
Could the Real Christopher Columbus Please Step Forward? We remember the likes of John Basilone to honor his sacrifice and to remind us of the blood and toil that has kept us safe and free. This ...
The Flight IIA Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer is named after Marine Gunnery Sgt. John Basilone received the Medal of Honor for his heroism during the Battle of Guadalcanal in 1942. Sgt.
The Mount Soledad National Veterans Memorial in La Jolla will unveil its 32nd Medal of Honor plaque during a ceremony Wednesday, Feb. 19, honoring late Gunnery Sgt. John Basilone, considered one of ...
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The Guadalcanal Rambo

Sergeant John Basilone and his unit were facing relentless fire from the Japanese forces during the Battle for Henderson Field in October of 1942 when suddenly he realized that the weapons they were ...
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, ...
SAN DIIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — Mt. Soledad National Veterans Memorial unveiled its 32nd Medal of Honor plaque during a historic ...