Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. US Navy aircraft carriers, from front to back, USS Wasp, USS Yorktown, USS Hornet, USS Hancock, and USS Ticonderoga at Ulithi ...

Editor's note: This story has been updated to correct Rebecca Stephenson's name. A new book, launched in partnership with the University of Guam Press, highlights the history and culture of Ulithi ...

When the USS Emory S. Land, one of the Navy's two submarine tenders, sailed into the Ulithi Atoll on December 7, it was a return to a major hub for US operations in World War II and yet another sign ...

On September 16, 1944, as US Marines began a major assault on Peleliu, Adm. William Halsey, commander of the US Navy's 3rd Fleet, ordered III Amphibious Corps to seize Ulithi Atoll, located 400 miles ...