During the Second World War, hundreds of thousands of German (and Italian) PoWs were shipped to the United Kingdom and even ...

As World War II reshaped rural Iowa, German prisoners of war became an essential labor force, and, in some cases, unexpected ...

During World War II, the United States set up hundreds of prisoner of war camps in the U.S., including nearly 40 in Wisconsin. But it wasn't till nearly the end of the war that POWs were sent to the ...

During World War II, the U.S. began amassing huge numbers of German prisoners when the Afrika Korps, the Wehrmacht’s elite desert troops, surrendered to the Allied forces at Tunisia in May 1943. As ...

A small, wooden keepsake box adorned with carvings and the inscription, “Gefangenschaft Amerika 1944,” was donated in late January to the Fort McCoy Public Affairs Office for inclusion in the Fort ...

'I knew I was still in danger': Remus man recalls escape from I-196 100+ car pileup A Remus, Mich. man who got caught in the 100-plus car pileup along I-196 is sharing his story with News Channel ...

Veteran journalist and author William Geroux has an aptitude for selecting World War II stories that should have been written decades ago and masterfully crafting them into praiseworthy accounts. Many ...

OLYMPIA, Wash. -- Small-town schoolteacher Reta Schwisow was 21, married for three months, when she got the news she was dreading: Her husband was missing in action. It was Aug. 10, 1944. Two weeks ...

Transferred late in World War II, Japanese prisoners of war encountered suspicion in southwest Iowa before labor demands ...