A small, wooden keepsake box adorned with carvings and the inscription, “Gefangenschaft Amerika 1944,” was donated in late January to the Fort McCoy Public Affairs Office for inclusion in the Fort ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — During World War II, life was markedly different for American prisoners of war compared to their counterparts who were housed in the U.S. The American military made a ...

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 ...

OLYMPIA, Wash. -- Small-town schoolteacher Reta Schwisow was 21, married for three months, when she got the news she was dreading: Her husband was missing in action. It was Aug. 10, 1944. Two weeks ...

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 ...

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 ...

Editor’s note: This is the final story of a five-part series on the history of World War II POW camps in Michigan. Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 and Part 4 are available to read on woodtv.com. GRAND RAPIDS, ...

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 ...

Editor's note: We Are Aiken County is a series of articles that will run through March 16. It celebrates people, places and events that shaped Aiken County. On a plot of ground across from Aiken High ...

In the bitter winter of 1941, British military prisoners in Nazi-occupied Germany huddled around a Monopoly set, dazzled by the contents that awaited them. They didn’t pluck Community Chest cards.

Oklahoma was half a continent and an ocean away from the front lines, but thousands of German soldiers spent much of World War II in Oklahoma.