During World War II, thousands of women served in the Soviet Red Army as snipers, medics, pilots, and frontline soldiers. When some of these women were captured by German forces, they often faced ...

Darlene Justus is determined to preserve two military barracks from Camp Papago Park — a World War II POW camp.

An early 1942 view of the World War II prisoner-of-war camp which was located on South Post at Camp McCoy (now Fort McCoy) near Sparta. From 1942 to 1946 this complex housed Japanese and German ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In early 1945, as World War II ground toward its final months, residents of southwest Iowa learned that a new group of prisoners ...

A group of POWs staged a sit-down strike at local processing plants. One POW, Heinz Golze, escaped from camps five times. Young women working alongside POWs were said to be "very familiar" with them.

"I have worked with the local Low Country AX-POW chapter members and their spouses ..."--Foreword. Collection of reminiscences relating primarily to World War II and to experiences of prisoners held ...

November 15, 1943 - In November, 1943 construction was completed on 70 buildings and 7 miles of roads at a Prisoner of War internment camp near Holdrege. The camp was initiated by the Holdrege ...

Japanese prisoners of war arrived at Camp Clarinda in Iowa in early 1945, meeting a tense and hostile reception. Unlike German POWs who were integrated into some communities, Japanese prisoners faced ...