SAN DIEGO — A Marine Corps hero was honored Wednesday, 80 years after he died in World War II. The legendary Gunnery Sergeant John Basilone, who died at the Battle of Iwo Jima, now has a dedicated ...

The ship bears the name of a Buffalo native and marine who served during World War II. John Basilone won the medal of honor for heroism during the Battle of Henderson Field at Guadalcanal one of the ...

One of the newest ships in the U.S. Navy fleet is named for a war hero from New Jersey. The ship is named for Raritan’s John Basilone. Some of the sailors from that ship made a trek to Somerset County ...

A warship named in honor of a legendary Marine Corps Medal of Honor recipient was delivered to the Navy this week. The USS John Basilone, an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer, has been transferred to a ...

Sixty years and nearly nine months after Sgt. John Basilone died on the sands of Iwo Jima, the U.S. Postal Service unveiled a commemorative stamp Thursday honoring the Buffalo-born war hero -- the ...

The US Navy’s newest Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer, USS John Basilone, has been commissioned. DDG 122 became the 74th ship of her class and the second ship to bear the namesake of John ...

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, ...

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 ...

After being canceled last year due to rain, the only parade in the country that honors a war hero is returning to Raritan. The annual John Basilone Parade honoring former Raritan resident, World War ...

Gunnery Sgt. John Basilone has achieved a measure of posterity. The World War II Marine Corps hero, who died at age 28 on Iwo Jima after legendary feats there and at Guadalcanal, has a Navy destroyer ...