and details of intra-camp baseball games. According to Kimberly Guise, senior curator at the National WWII Museum in New Orleans, around 21,000 journals were distributed to POWs in parcels ...

History isn’t all heroes, celebrations, and groundbreaking discoveries. Behind the triumphs are moments of unimaginable pain ...

World War II lived ... a labor camp near Dresden, Germany. That winter he made two unsuccessful escape attempts and as punishment was sent to work in a soap factory. He and another POW sabotaged ...

Read more: 25 Gorgeous Islands For Vacationing That Won't Break The Bank Looking at a map, travelers might be surprised ... and was turned into a prisoner of war camp by the Japanese during World War ...

After World War II there were from 560,000 to 760,000 Japanese personnel in the Soviet Union and Mongolia interned to work in labor camps as POWs. Of them, it is estimated that between 60,000 and ...

While America's Japanese internment camps during WWII have been discussed at length by scholars, historians, and the like, ...

More than 70 years after dying in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp during WWII, U.S. Army Private James Mitchell of Chico, ...

PUERTO PRINCESA, Philippines — A restoration project appears to have stalled at the site of an infamous massacre of American prisoners of war on the island of Palawan in the Philippines.

Stevens was born on Nov. 24, 1924, and spent most of her childhood in the Philippines. During WWII, she and her family were ...

“There were over 35 prisoner of war camps set up in Wisconsin in 1943,” explains Pam Ekholm of the Wisconsin Historical ...

Sgt. James W. Swartz, a WW II soldier from Michigan, was recently identified over 80 years after his death as a POW.