During World War II, Allied POWs had to endure many dangers and discomforts, from torture, exposure to harsh weather, disease, forced labor, starvation, even execution. This was especially true of ...

The shocking photos show the prisoners of war reduced to skin and bone after being starved and brutally beaten by their captors until they were freed following the fall of Japan in 1945.

Eighty years ago a company of U.S. Army Rangers and Filipino guerrilla fighters conducted the most successful rescue mission ...

The museum will showcase flags central to the liberation of American soldiers who were kept prisoners of war following the ...

However, Japan surrendered soon after. Nishikura's family sending him off for military enlistment Taken prisoner, Nishikura and other POWs were made to march about 200 kilometers over 10 days ...

Several weeks earlier, the Palawan Massacre took place in the Philippines, where 139 American POWs were killed by Japanese ...

Laureta Huit, director of the New Mexico Military Museum, uncovers a section of a Japanese flag taken down by Oscar Avery Cox and other POWs at Fukuoka Prison Camp 17. The signatures on the ...

The Japanese flag once flew at Fukuoka 17 ... Honoring the 80th Anniversary of the Liberation of Our Bataan Prisoners of War. This exhibit reflects on the final year of internment for Bataan ...