Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Army Master Sgt. Roddie Edmonds will be posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor. Roddie Edmonds never spoke about his time in a ...

It’s been a busy Autumn so far for the Second World War veteran Harry Winter, spritely at 103-years-old, his six pills for diabetes and blood pressure washed down each morning with a full English and ...

In 1943, hundreds of thousands of German prisoners of war were sent to the United States after the collapse of the Afrika Korps. What they witnessed—industrial scale, agricultural abundance, and ...

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.

Observances were held in Poland on Sunday to mark the 80th anniversary of the “Great Escape,” an ingenious act of defiance during World War II in which 76 prisoners of war tunneled out of a German ...

Though initially recorded by British intelligence with the intention of gaining information that might be useful for the Allied war effort, the matters discussed in these conversations ultimately ...

Ernest Gueymard spent Dec. 15, 1943, at Prisoner-of-War Sub-Camp No. 7 in Port Allen for a feature story for the State-Times, The Advocate's then-afternoon sister newspaper. "The swish-swish of the ...