Ray, the hero of the story, is a 21-year-old soldier from Dunstable who escaped from a prisoner-of-war column in northern France in 1940 and managed to make it all the way back to Britain.

In 1917, an Army review board rescinded the Medal of Honor that had been awarded to Dr. Mary Edwards Walker, an Army surgeon and former prisoner of war, more than half a century earlier. Walker ...

LACONIA, New Hampshire (WMUR) — The remains of a New Hampshire soldier who died in captivity during the Korean War were returned to American soil on Wednesday afternoon, more than 70 years after ...

FARGO — Relatives of a serviceman who died as a prisoner of war in World War II finally have the answer they’ve waited so long to receive. Skeletal remains of U.S. Army Air Forces Staff Sgt ...

Object Details Description 1991.0402.05 Iraqi Army-issued prisoner of war uniform jacket. The garment is a bright gold cotton twill unlined jacket, which closes at the center front with five brown ...

One of the questions remaining at the end of of World War II was what to do about the Korean peninsula.

LONDON (Reuters) -Eleven jailed Russian dissidents have written to world leaders appealing for a mass release of Russian political prisoners and Ukrainian civilians held by Russia - some 10,000 ...

Vote for your favorite Herald News area Female Athlete Player of the year. 13 athletes are nominated. The poll runs through July 11.

Early in 2021, Costa Rican filmmaker Hilda Hidalgo launched a pioneering initiative in her home country: the Unión de Directoras de Cine Costa Rica, or the Union of Female Film Directors of Costa ...

SIAC Female Athlete of the Year Riley Brescher (Bosse): Competed in swimming. A member of the 200-yard freestyle relay team that set the school record.

80 years after his death, North Dakota World War II serviceman's remains identified Remains of U.S. Army Air Forces Staff Sgt. Irvin C. Ellingson, who died in a Tokyo military prison fire in 1945 ...