He enlisted at 28, died at 29 and never came home. But now Marine Corps Reserve Pfc. Frank L. Athon Jr. is returning to Cincinnati – nearly 80 years after his death in the Pacific in WWII. He was one ...
In the middle of World War II, the United States faced a brutal problem in the Pacific: how to defeat Japan’s strongest island fortresses without sacrificing tens of thousands of lives. This story ...