It’s been a busy Autumn so far for the Second World War veteran Harry Winter, spritely at 103-years-old, his six pills for ...
AUGUSTA, Mich. — A special ceremony was held at Fort Custer in Augusta to honor the German-American community in Michigan, as well as around the world. The ceremony centers around Volkstrauertag, ...
Editor’s note: This is the third part of a five-part series on the history of World War II POW camps in Michigan. Part 1 is available here. Part 2 is here. A new story will be published every Sunday.
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 available to read here. GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — During World War II, ...
During World War II, the Midwest was home to approximately 250 base and branch prisoner of war camps, which held tens of thousands of the 380,000 German POWs who were imprisoned in more than 660 POW ...
During World War II, the U.S. began amassing huge numbers of German prisoners when the Afrika Korps, the Wehrmacht’s elite desert troops, surrendered to the Allied forces at Tunisia in May 1943. As ...
A German prisoner of war assists with the harvest, August 1945 - James Jarche/Popperfoto via Getty Images At the end of the Second World War, Britain stood victorious. In almost every other respect, ...
TYLER, Texas (KLTV) - As the unprecedented D-Day invasion in France got underway in June 1944, German prisoners of war were arriving in Texas by the thousands. According to the Texas Historical ...
With the U.S. in two (or three?) wars right now and with the debate over enemy combatants always in the news, it might be interesting to recollect an oft-forgotten fact: Once upon another desperate ...
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