Military scientists have identified the remains of an Illinois soldier who died during World War II at a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp in the Philippines. The remains of Army Pfc. Harry Jerele of ...

KOYAGI, Japan — Dozens of relatives of former Dutch prisoners of war who suffered abuse and starvation during their captivity in one of Japan's largest World War II prison camps visited on Saturday ...

Columbia University historian Sarah Kovner presented a new approach to understanding the inhumane treatment of Allied prisoners in Japanese camps during World War II at a lecture Wednesday afternoon.

TOKYO (AP) — The prisoners of war held in Tokyo’s Omori POW camp saw some of the most horrific destruction during the last months of World War II, as American B-29 bombers dropped incendiary bombs ...

The aftermath of the Second World War was incredibly chaotic and missing Japanese soldiers that turned up years later weren’t ...

ELWOOD, Ill. — Military scientists have identified the remains of an Illinois soldier who died during World War II at a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp in the Philippines. The remains of Army Pfc. Harry ...

Army Brig. Gen. Guy Fort, 1st Sgt. John Chandler, Capt. Albert Price, and Lt. Col. Robert Vesey (left to right) were POWs executed by the Japanese in the Philippines ...

Eight-two years to the day after he died in a Japanese prisoner of war camp, U.S. Army Air Forces Pfc. Charles R. Powers has returned home to Riverside. Powers died at age 26 on July 18, 1942 after ...

SHENYANG, China (Reuters) - They survived the Bataan Death March and the Japanese Hell Ships, they shivered in the bitter cold and staved off starvation by eating stray dogs. Now, nine American ...

In 1988, Congress approved designating April 9 as Former Prisoners of War Day. The day commemorates the April 9, 1942, surrender of more than 12,000 American troops and 66,000 Filipino soldiers on the ...