KINGSPORT, Tenn. - Thousands of military men and women around the area recognized this Veterans Day. Each of them has a personal history of serving our country. One man brings a remarkable story, ...
Archive List > Books > POW march across Germany, 1945 by James Badcock James Badcock Chapter Three Finally Friday dawned - Good Friday 30 March 1945 and most of us were up and about very early. We ...
Bernard Miller, a POW in Germany for 15 months during World War II, salutes the flag during the Former POW Recognition Luncheon Friday at the Knights of Columbus, Luzerne. Albert M. Schlosser, who is ...
Those words came to Harold Pressel moments after flak from German anti-aircraft fire ripped through the left wing of his B-24 Liberator over Germany, hitting the heavy bomber between the two massive ...
In 1944, an American bomber was separated from its formation after making a bombing run over airplane factories in the heart of Nazi Germany when one of its engines began to fail. Luftwaffe pilots ...
An American flag folded across her chest, Pfc. Jessica Lynch left Iraq on a stretcher Wednesday after U.S. commandos, acting on a CIA tip, rescued the prisoner of war. But the operation also brought ...
George Stowell Burson had brisket and potato salad for lunch last week. It was a far cry from the two loaves of bread per week that he and 19 other officers had to share as prisoners of war in Germany ...
While Diana Halstead and her sisters were growing up in Alton, Ill., their mother Dixie told them not to ever ask their father about what he did during the war. So they didn't. Their father, Henry ...
RICHMOND, Ind. (WKRC) - The remains of a tank commander killed in WWII were recently identified by military scientists and returned to the U.S. 79 years after his death. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting ...
BERLIN (Reuters) - The German government plans to pay a total of 10 million euros in compensation to an estimated 4,000 surviving World War Two Soviet prisoners for their suffering at the hands of ...