On February 24th, I went on my last mission. It was my 24th mission. It was a mission to bomb a target over Steyr, Austria.

A white granite headstone in Section 60 of Arlington National Cemetery bears a name that sounds American: Larry Allan Thorne.

He did not say the words, "get it all on record now" because "down the track of history some b****rd will get up and say that this never happened." ...

An underground 20-mile complex of tunnels, shafts, underground railway stations and combat facilities built by the Nazis was ...

“The witness – a tall, 16-year-old boy with a child-like face – recounts his sad story as if he were an old man”, she noted ...

Like most other local residents, Tricia Torrez didn't know that the Sahuarita area had a German prisoner of war camp during World War II. Until a couple of years ago, that is, when she overheard her ...

Dame Sibyl Hathaway had 275 Nazi prisoners on her hands and knew exactly what she wanted to do with them. It was May 1945. Five years earlier, Germany had invaded Hathaway’s home in the British ...

From 1933 to 1945, Nazi Germany set up over 44,000 concentration camps for a wide range of purposes, including forced labor and detention of people thought to be enemies of the Third Reich. Near the ...

As the war ended in 1945, captured Waffen SS men faced brutal treatment by the Soviets who saw them not as ordinary soldiers, but as ideological enemies to be broken. Many tried to hide their ...

HACKENSACK — Two Bergen County residents and former prisoners of war were honored by the county in honor of National Prisoner of War/Missing in Action Recognition Day. Harold Friedeman, who just ...

A flag-lowering ceremony is held at the Algona POW camp in 1945. Some 10,000 prisoners of war, mostly Germans, were processed through the camp during its two years of existence. Buy Photo The Gazette ...

Veteran journalist and author William Geroux has an aptitude for selecting World War II stories that should have been written decades ago and masterfully crafting them into praiseworthy accounts. Many ...