Hundreds of Americans died when the Oryoku Maru sank off the coast of the Philippines. The U.S. military may finally be close ...

Pfc. Bernard Sweet's remains were set to return to the U.S. on a flight at Bradley International Airport in Connecticut on July 30, 2026.

Jack Work joined the Army right out of high school and was captured during the Battle of the Bulge, spending time as a ...

He became a prisoner of the Japanese in 1942 and died in the Cabanatuan Prisoner of War Camp that October, according to the ...

A Japanese ship was in a convoy steaming through the South China Sea on September 21, 1944, with around 1,200 British and Dutch prisoners of war crammed in its holds. US warplanes, mistaking the ...

LAKEWOOD – Stooped with age but still smiling and joking, three Colorado veterans who were taken prisoner by the German military in World War II got their medals Thursday, more than 70 years after ...

PLAINFIELD, NJ — The remains of a World War II sailor from Plainfield who died in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp have been laid to rest in a grave with his mother at Hillside Cemetery in Scotch ...

CLAY COUNTY, Fla. – A World War II Navy sailor whose only known family is in the Jacksonville area is finally being laid to rest after being listed as missing in action for more than 80 years. Modern ...

ROANOKE, Va. (WDBJ) - Coy Daughterty is originally from Galax, Virginia and was a prisoner of war (POW) under the Japanese for three and a half years. But he never let anyone call him a ‘hero’.

A World War II prisoner of war had finally returned to American soil after 84 years since his death; the remains of U.S. Army ...

History doesn't always have a good memory. It seems to have forgotten that the United States had prisoner-of-war camps during ...