The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced James Swartz of Webberville, was officially accounted for in August.

After the United States entered World War II, prisoner-of-war camps were established to hold those who were captured fighting ...

Despite limited resources and a dwindling number of witnesses, a citizens group has continued efforts to determine conditions in POW camps in Japan where 10 percent of the captured combatants died ...

Editor’s note: This is the second part of a five-part series on the history of World War II POW camps in Michigan. Part 1 is ...

For the first time, the numbers of prisoners of war incarcerated at camps across Japan during World War II and their captivity and forced labor in appalling conditions have been documented in detail.

A former POW camp in the Philippines which was the site of a massacre of U.S. troops has fallen into disrepair.

André says conditions were harsh in the camp, and the guards violent. Prisoners were sent to work at a shipyard with little food or medical care. Many of them died. The POW camp near Nagasaki was ...

I had no idea of the world behind it.’ Jenny had been born in Changi, a prisoner-of-war (POW) camp in Singapore. There, she and her mother, Daphne, stayed in a wooden hut and were limited to ...

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Jinguashi was the location of Kinkaseki camp, one of more than a dozen prisoner of war (POW) camps, where around 4,350 Allied soldiers were held captive during World War Two. Taiwan was a Japanese ...

The site of Britain's biggest prisoner of war camp is being excavated by archaeology students. Lodge Moor camp just outside Sheffield held more than 11,000 prisoners during World War Two.