Credit: Mark Sanchez photo / goletahistory.com This Christmas ... war camp on the Gaviota Coast. As a local history enthusiast, I was very sad to learn that the tower fell down. The Gaviota POW ...

The event had a total guest list of more than 1,300 that included movie stars Bob Hope, John Wayne and Jimmy Stewart, along ...

The 93,000 Pakistani prisoners taken at the end of the 1971 war always find prominent mention ... Adha and allotted Rs 1 per head for the Christian POWs for Christmas. The group commander of several ...

IT’S the sheer scale of the mind-numbing inhumanity that hits you with the force of a sledgehammer. A seemingly endless pile of 18,000 worn-down shoes, taken from victims of the nearby gas chambers, ...

From ferry rides with POWs to the drama of the sick bay - the letters reveal a rich tapestry of life in the 1940s ...

In 1953, several POWs who returned during Operation Big Switch reported Travers had been a prisoner of war and died in December 1951 at Prisoner of War Camp No. 1.In late summer and fall 1954 ...

POWs returning in 1953 during Operation Big Switch said Taunton's Richard Travers had died in POW Camp 1. It would take 71 ...

The shocking photos show the prisoners of war ... camp commandment Lieutenant Usuki, who handed out beatings to men who worked on the Death Railway in Burma and beheaded one British PoW in ...

In 1953, several POWs who returned during Operation Big Switch reported Travers had been a prisoner of war and died in December 1951 at Prisoner of War Camp #1. Remains of prisoners of war ...

BEXHILL, ENGLAND—BBC News reports that the site of Cooden Camp, a World War I training camp that opened ... To read about traces of a wartime POW camp in Scotland, go to "The Marks of Time ...

From 1943 through 1946, more than 3,400 prisoners (including 15 Nazi generals) were processed at Fort Hunt, according to ...

Ten days later he was captured by German forces and spent the rest of the war in various PoW camps. From camps in Crete and Greece he was transferred to Stalag XX-A in December 1941. Alex said ...