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The Untold Truth Of America's WWII German POW Camps
While America's Japanese internment camps during WWII have been discussed at length by scholars, historians, and the like, ...
Wisconsin State Farmer6d
Historian says German POWs helped save WI agriculture and economy during WWII.
“There were over 35 prisoner of war camps set up in Wisconsin in 1943,” explains Pam Ekholm of the Wisconsin Historical ...
Remains of WWII airman from Tennessee identified 80 years after plane shot down
U.S. Army Air Force Tech. Sgt. Sanford G. Roy was one of several airmen aboard a plane shot down over Germany in April 1944.
Daily Mail5d
Unseen drawings reveal British soldiers built second Great Escape tunnel at German POW camp just weeks after 50 men were executed after famous Second World War breakout
In it, the German lambasts him for the PoWs disobeying orders not to play the British national anthem at the end of a concert. There are further drawings of other buildings in the camp ...
The Sun2d
Mystery of missing WW2 RAF bomber thought lost over North Sea ‘is solved’ as burnt maps ‘show plane MADE IT to Germany’
A MISSING World War II bomber believed to have been shot down over the North Sea is thought to be buried in a small German town. The decades-long mystery could soon be solved after a burnt map ...
USA Today4d
'City under the ice': NASA scientists find abandoned Cold War military base in Greenland
In April, two scientists surveying the Greenland Ice Sheet found Camp Century, a Cold War U.S. military base while attempting to map the ice sheet. “We were looking for the bed of the ice and ou ...
Photos show how Camp David, the president's private escape, has changed through the years
Camp David serves as an escape for US presidents to unwind away from the White House and meet with world leaders in a more ...
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Camp Century: Abandoned Cold War 'city under the ice' rediscovered by NASA
flew over Greenland in April this year to map ice sheets and estimate future sea level rise. "We were looking for the bed of the ice and out pops Camp Century," said Mr Gardner, describing how ...
THE WEEK2d
The fate of prisoners of war
POW camps, a previously unheard-of concept ... amended at the 38-nation Third Geneva Convention in 1929. But in World War II, the combatants committed numerous atrocities. The Japanese tested ...