Remembering these remarkable contributions and the people who served when the 80th anniversary of V-E Day is celebrated.

The captured service members were subjected to the 65-mile Bataan Death March, and then held at the Cabanatuan POW Camp No. 1, where more than 2,500 POWs perished during the war, Swartz among them ...

In this episode of WW2 Wayfinder, I have compiled a series of original wartime film reels of the POW Camp, Stalag VIIA at ...

Despite limited resources and a dwindling number of witnesses, a citizens group has continued efforts to determine conditions in POW camps in Japan where 10 percent of the captured combatants died ...

Writing in local paper the Wisbech Standard more than 60 years later, historian Trevor Bevis said: "Prisoners of war at Friday Bridge POW camp had a pretty good time. "The entrance was guarded by ...

The remains of U.S. Army Air Corps Sgt. James Swartz, who died in a Japanese POW camp after surviving the Bataan Death March, were interred in Michigan. Swartz, a member of the 24th Pursuit Group ...

Army Maj. James J. O’Donovan, a native of Cohoes and a highly decorated soldier, was finally laid to rest 80 years after he died inside the Cabanatuan POW Camp in Bataan, Philippines.

Around 4,000 men were held at high-security Cultybraggan near Comrie, the only surviving ‘black list’ POW camp, at the time of the German surrender. They included around 2,700 Germans ...

He wasn't in Europe; he was thousands of miles away in the mountains outside Tokyo, enduring hell in the Mitushima POW camp. Starving, sick, and brutalised after years of captivity, he didn't even ...