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 ...

EAU CLAIRE — “If anyone knows me,” said Todd Johnson, “they know I like a good story.” Along with John Duretsky, Johnson will be one of the presenters of the upcoming event at the Chippewa Valley ...

After the Allies’ defeat of the Afrika Corp in May 1943, “there was nowhere else to put the Germans but in America,” writes journalist Geroux (The Ghost Ships of Archangel) in this exhilarating ...

KANSAS CITY - About 140 men who were prisoners of war met in Kansas City this weekend to share their stories and some camaraderie. Many of the veterans at the 61st national convention of the American ...

FUKUOKA, Japan - “Eighty years ago today, (my father, Lt. Kentaro Toji) was one of the executioners in an incident involving captured Airmen,” said Katsuya Toji. “Although he was following orders, he ...

The six men and one woman -- five of them comrades of former POW Jessica Lynch from the U.S. Army's 507th Maintenance Support Company, the other two freed Apache helicopter pilots from the 1st ...

In February 1945, a United Press International reporter interviewed an Oklahoma sniper credited with killing over 130 Germans. Sergeant Horace West told the correspondent his rifle was named after his ...