The captured service members were subjected to the 65-mile Bataan Death March, and then held at the Cabanatuan POW Camp No. 1, where more than 2,500 POWs perished during the war, Swartz among them ...

The remains of U.S. Army Air Corps Sgt. James Swartz, who died in a Japanese POW camp after surviving the Bataan Death March, were interred in Michigan. Swartz, a member of the 24th Pursuit Group ...

"He said something to grandma like, 'Remember the POW camp here?' " Torrez said ... a historian at the Center for Military History at Fort McNair in Washington, D.C., said Army officials ...

Rhode Island played a key role in WWII through deception, POW ... camps in Rhode Island, at forts Kearney, Getty and Wetherill. Beginning in February 1945, approximately 85 prisoners were brought ...

FORT SMITH -- The University of Arkansas at Fort Smith is hosting various sports and music camps for multiple age groups this summer. The university during June, July and August will have ...

In this episode of WW2 Wayfinder, I have compiled a series of original wartime film reels of the POW Camp, Stalag VIIA at Moosburg, in Bavaria, Germany. Stalag VIIA was liberated by the troops of ...

in west Fort Worth, police said. Officers were called to a report of a major accident in the 6700 block of Camp Bowie West Boulevard shortly after 5:30 p.m. The address is located near Riscky’s ...

He wasn't in Europe; he was thousands of miles away in the mountains outside Tokyo, enduring hell in the Mitushima POW camp. Starving, sick, and brutalised after years of captivity, he didn't even ...

GRODNO, 7 May (BelTA) - Tree of Life monument was unveiled on the grounds of the Stalag 324 camp for Soviet prisoners of war that operated in Grodno from 1941 to 1942, BelTA learned. This is not ...

Eighty years later, thanks to dental and anthropological analysis, the remains of Pvt. Ben Leslie have been accounted for.

“We think it is the only PoW camp in England and the only one in the world with a purpose-built theatre, orchestra pit and stage,” says James, who spends eight hours each week cutting the gras ...

That simple act caught the attention of another POW, Pat Ward-Thomas, and soon several other imprisoned American and British airmen joined in at Stalag Luft III, the German camp made famous by ...