For some people, the new year brings a resolution to refrain from drinking — if only for a month. In 2013, a British charity ...

Japanese Americans held in prison camps were allowed to return home. But much of what they'd left behind was gone: homes, ...

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

Pvt. Oscar Avery Cox and other Bataan prisoners of war endured harsh conditions during World War II, including a miles-long march through hell. Despite the adversity, Cox and three fellow POWs decided ...

The “good guys” ignored the rules too. Many U.S. troops shot surrendering Japanese. After the war, hundreds of German prisoners were blown to bits when the Allies forced them to clear land ...

The museum will showcase flags central to the liberation of American soldiers who were kept prisoners of war following the ...

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

(250125) -- SANAA, Jan. 25, 2025 (Xinhua) -- War prisoners sit on chairs as they attend a press conference held over their release in Sanaa, Yemen, on Jan. 25, 2025. Yemen's Houthi rebel group on ...

Report on No. 1. P.O.W. Camp, Formosa (now Taiwan), by the administrative officer, Colonel J.F. CrossleyRAMC/1016/1 Annual medical reports for P.O.W. Camp, Changi ...

The swaps of hostages for prisoners are a key part of a ceasefire agreement aimed at ending the deadliest and most destructive war ever fought between Israel and Hamas. Militants are still holding ...

Back in the U.S., the family found its new niche in insurance. “Post-World War II, no insurance company would insure Japanese people or their properties. That’s an example of how we were ...