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.

In his book, With God in a POW Camp, survivor Ralph Gaither said he and another prisoner recited the 23rd Psalm the final 100 yards back to the stadium. Almost all the men sustained head and ...

Captain Julius Morris Green was captured by Nazis in 1940 at Dunkirk He spent most of the war in POW camps including Colditz castle MI9 recruited him as a spy and he sent information back in coded ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hanoi Hilton (Hoa Lo) American POWs gave Hoa Lo, perhaps the best known of all the North's prison camps, the ironic tag of "Hanoi Hilton." The French occupiers of Vietnam had built it at the turn ...

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 ...

Laos's capital. Chinese developers are constructing high-rise residential towers across the special economic zone that are geared to Chinese investors, unaffordable to the vast majority of Lao.

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 ...