prisoner of war

3 min read 2022-04-13 03:45:21

These are some of the worst war crimes committed by the Soviet Union

War crimes encapsulate prohibited activities and kinds of weaponry, targeting particular buildings like hospitals and those dedicated to art,

3 min read 2022-04-02 04:28:46

For a moment and hours prior to the National Prisoner of War and Missing in Action Recognition Day ceremony, a pair of boots sit beside a POW/MIA

2 min read 2022-03-29 19:59:07

At just 18 years old, Hjalmar Johansson was given a choice: either serve in the infantry or work as a nose gunner in a B-24 bomber. Johansson decided

3 min read 2022-03-12 00:06:21

In 1918 in a Prisoner of War camp, 10 British soldiers made it to freedom. Another 19 received a worse fate, caught in the act. It’s known as the

3 min read 2022-02-05 20:03:29

Pacific theater, late 1944. Allied forces have been gradually uprooting the Japanese forces and pushing them back to Japan. As its foothold in the

1 min read 2021-11-13 17:17:08

The gun turret operators among the prisoners said that there was no way they could rotate their turrets fast enough to shoot one of those things

3 min read 2021-04-09 01:00:42

World War II Veteran Joseph Demler became a Nazi prisoner of war and lived under miserable conditions. Even so, he remained positive throughout

5 min read 2021-03-23 20:13:09

Richard Attenborough and Steve McQueen in the 1963 film "The Great Escape," based on the 1944 mass breakout from Nazi Germany's Stalag

5 min read 2021-03-23 20:13:09

Richard Attenborough and Steve McQueen in the 1963 film "The Great Escape," based on the 1944 mass breakout from Nazi Germany's Stalag

5 min read 2021-03-23 20:13:09

Richard Attenborough and Steve McQueen in the 1963 film "The Great Escape," based on the 1944 mass breakout from Nazi Germany's Stalag

7 min read 2021-03-23 20:13:09

Richard Attenborough and Steve McQueen in the 1963 film "The Great Escape," based on the 1944 mass breakout from Nazi Germany's Stalag

2 min read 2021-01-09 21:00:07

On a beautiful sunny day in December, Disabled American Veterans (DAV) and Blue Star Mothers of the Midlands presented the keys of a brand-new

3 min read 2021-01-08 22:50:17

An Army veteran who suffered “unspeakable tortures” while held as a prisoner of war by the Japanese during World War II was recognized this week

6 min read 2021-01-07 06:49:46

An Army veteran who served in the Pacific theater in World War II was finally recognized for his courage in a ceremony on Jan. 4, 2020. “Courage

2 min read 2020-12-05 23:30:33

Today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Army Veteran Robert Frank Augur, who served during World War II and was a prisoner of war in the Philippines for 33