About 130 POW camps were built in Japan during the war, and POWs were forced to toil in coal mines, factories and elsewhere. Many died of disease, starvation and violence.

André says conditions were harsh in the camp, and the guards violent. Prisoners were sent to work at a shipyard with little food or medical care. Many of them died. The POW camp near Nagasaki was ...

Editor’s note: This is the second part of a five-part series on the history of World War II POW camps in Michigan. Part 1 is ...

“But having grown up locally, I knew about the history of the old POW camp here.” But the little piece of Mississippi history isn’t common knowledge to most. We spoke with a couple gentleman ...

If you had to carry what mattered to you most on a forced march of unknown length across a wintry landscape, would you choose ...

Jinguashi was the location of Kinkaseki camp, one of more than a dozen prisoner of war (POW) camps, where around 4,350 Allied soldiers were held captive during World War Two. Taiwan was a Japanese ...

A Ritchie County man was laid to rest over the weekend more than 73 years after he gave his life in the Korean War.

But in fact this site was one of two Allentown locations of a POW camp for Hessian soldiers, German mercenaries hired by the British Crown to fight in America. And the prisoners housed at both ...

The device was made entirely from items collected at a German camp for Allied prisoners of war during World War II. By Max Hauptman Posted on Apr 7, 2022 9:46 AM EDT Improvise, adapt and overcome.

Stragglers were executed. Goings was part of a group that was transferred again to Cabanatuan Camp No. 1. He didn’t last long. A total of 797 POWs died in July 1942, the deadliest month in ...

Now, 75 years on from the breakout on the 10 March, 1945, hundreds of visitors will get a rare chance to view the Island Farm camp in Bridgend for themselves. Free tickets for the tour of PoW Hut ...