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

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 ...

The remains of Pfc. Joseph R. Travers, a Massachusetts soldier missing since the Korean War, have been identified and will be ...

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

During World War II, there were labor shortages on American farms. Because of this, American farmers had to turn to prisoners ...

Several weeks earlier, the Palawan Massacre took place in the Philippines, where 139 American POWs were killed by Japanese ...

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

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 ...

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 ...