Lester Schrenk, a former U.S. Army Air Forces B-17 gunner who was shot down over Denmark in February 1944, spent about half ...

TYCHOWO, Poland - Eighty years after his liberation from a German prisoner of war camp, 101-year-old Lester F. Schrenk ...

The discovery sheds new light on the history of one of the largest prisoner-of-war ... to the camp. Reports indicate that ...

On 24 March 1944, 76 allied officers broke out of a German prisoner-of-war camp, Stalag Luft III – a mission that was memorialised in a classic film, The Great Escape. In 1977, a key member of ...

The Long March began at Stalag Luft III, located near what is now Zagan, Poland. This camp was operated by the Luftwaffe, the ...

The camp is a consequence of Malawi’s peculiar refugee policies, which, although welcoming to those in need of sanctuary, do ...

EXCLUSIVE: Geoff Roberts, a 99-year-old Second World War veteran, prepares for what might be his final journey to Arnhem ...

Greenville native Miles Richard "Dick" League, a colonel in the U.S. Air Force, fought in World War II. He was a prisoner of ...

Noteworthy among these chapters of history is its role during the Civil War, during which the grounds became known as Camp Randall, a barracks for Union troops and a prison camp for captured ...

A 300KM charity cycle ride that will mirror the route of the Long March from the prisoner-of-war camp of Stalag Luft III, in ...

Prisoner-of-war films have been some of Hollywood's most enduring pictures. Steve McQueen daringly screaming over fences on his motorbike in The Great Escape, Alec Guinness collapsing on the ...

Then he was taken to Stalag Luft ... years in the camp, Smythe woke on 1 May 1945 to an eerie silence. The guards in the towers were gone; the main gates were wide open. The war was over.