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Join us for a special program at the Steele County History Center, 1700 Austin Road, Owatonna at 1 p.m. on Monday, Aug. 11. Jerry Ganfield, local historian and Steele County ...
Camp McCoy received prisoners from Europe and Asia, including the first Japanese prisoner of war, an ensign who was captured at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.
Well Go USA released the trailer for "Prisoner of War." Scott Adkins plays a P.O.W. enlisted in underground fights at the ...
The first purpose-built prisoner-of-war camp was constructed in England in 1779. It marked the inception of facilities specifically intended to house war captives during times of conflict.
A prisoner of war camp from the Napoleonic era located in Cambridgeshire has been acquired by a trust to preserve it as a site of historical significance. Nene Park Trust has purchased Norman ...
A group that works to publicize and remember an infamous chapter in Elmira's history — a Civil War prison camp where thousands of Confederate soldiers died — is kicking off a fundraising campaign to ...
Judy the pointer became the only animal to be recognised as a prisoner of war during WWII - and she managed to save multiple ...
Hidden in a corner of Gladstone Park, one of London's most poignant memorials was the first to commemorate the Holocaust.
A World War II B-17 navigator, he was shot down over Holland, captured by the Germans and sent to a POW camp near the Polish border. "That was the church, a view he had from the camp.
Camp McCoy received prisoners from Europe and Asia, including the first Japanese prisoner of war, an ensign who was captured at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.