The weather-beaten flag bears the names of men who endured the infamous Bataan Death March and rode the "hell ships" to Japan, defying the odds by their survival. They lived long enough, at least ...
PostMag writer Jason Wordie looks back at the harrowing history of Hong Kong during World War II under Japanese occupation ...
The International Committee of the Red Cross is also entitled to access POW camps and check on prisoner welfare. Russia and Ukraine have swapped POWs on a number of occasions throughout the war, most ...
“I received a copy of Andrew’s PoW record from the National Archives. It is an eight-page document and it charts Andrew’s arrival at Stalag XX-A and the various work camps he was sent to.
Dorr's nieces and nephews, born after the war, are now the third generation of family, after Dorr's parents and siblings, trying to find his remains and bring them back to Rhode Island.
After D-Day, the camp was repurposed to house German prisoners. Incredibly, the last German PoW didn’t leave the camp until 1949 – four years after the Second World War ended. In the following ...
Today, the museum tells the story of The People's War, the social history of life in Britain from 1939 to 1945, as well as its historic background as a POW camp. The museum tells its story through ...
The Black Prince was notorious camp commandment Lieutenant Usuki, who handed out beatings to men who worked on the Death Railway in Burma and beheaded one British PoW in full view of his ...
ROCK ISLAND, Ill. (KWQC) - The woman police say intentionally deceived officers into thinking her daughter was abducted was arrested in Wisconsin Thursday night. Princess Ilunga, 37, is being held ...
ROCK ISLAND, Ill. — Update Monday at 2 p.m.: An autopsy took place on Monday for a Rock Island man shot and killed by police on Sunday afternoon, the coroner said. Rock Island County Coroner ...