The joy of homecoming is short-lived for returning prisoners, as they face insults, cut pay and orders to return to the front ...
Les Schrenk and Casey Bukowski already share a special bond as World War II veterans. After all, not many from the Greatest ...
SUMY REGION, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine and Russia exchanged prisoners of war on Friday, each sending back 75 POWs in the first such swap in the past three months, officials said. A few hours earlier and ...
Russian POWs get to make phone calls home. Ukrainians don't. A growing movement wants that to change
FAR WESTERN UKRAINE (AP) — Precious few choices are available to Alexander, a 26-year-old Russian soldier, since his capture: Clothes, meals and the hours of his day are rigidly accounted for in the ...
An engraving captioned "Prisoners in Andersonville Stockade" depicts prisoners at the Andersonville prison camp in George, circa 1861. Getty Images Civil War-era data suggest that trauma experienced ...
Ukrainian soldier Serhii Hryhoriev said this so often during brief phone calls from the front that his wife and two daughters took it to heart. His younger daughter, Oksana, tattooed the phrase on her ...
During World War II, hundreds of German and Italian prisoners of war were held in camps throughout the Red River Valley, Kenneth Dawes, a retired UND professor, told a group of more than 100 who ...
Museums are seeing an increase in donations and oral histories from the swell of former U.S. prisoners of war eager to leave their legacies. But museum officials still worry that too many POWs ...
Long before Guantanamo Bay, about 400,000 prisoners of war were held on American soil during World War II with 6,000 German and Italian POWs living and working in Minnesota. From area POW camps in ...
SEOUL — Sixty years ago this month, a 21-year-old South Korean soldier named Lee Jae-won wrote a letter to his mother. He was somewhere in the middle of the peninsula, he wrote, and bullets were ...
More than 50 Ukrainian prisoners of war have been killed in a bombing that President Volodymyr Zelensky condemned Friday as a “terrorist attack organized by Russian inhuman monsters.” “This is another ...
YORBA LINDA, Calif. - U.S. Navy Lt. Commander Doug Burns was on a night reconnaissance mission searching for enemy trucks when he was shot down by anti-aircraft fire and taken prisoner during the ...
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