Almost no Marine of the U.S. 1st Marine Division stationed on Guadalcanal — an island 90 miles long and 25 miles wide in the Solomons Archipelago of the South Pacific Ocean — had experienced combat ...
Following a decade-long recovery and identification mission led by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency — and more than 80 years since he was killed in the hellish Guadalcanal campaign — U.S. Marine ...
FRANKLIN, WILLIAM TYLER “TY”, 78, died Tuesday, June 24, at Florida Hospital in Orlando. Ty Franklin was born in Atlanta, Georgia in 1924 and raised in Orlando, Florida. He was a United States Marine, ...