In this episode of WW2 Wayfinder, I have compiled a series of original wartime film reels of the POW Camp, Stalag VIIA at Moosburg, in Bavaria, Germany. Stalag VIIA was liberated by the troops of ...

On Feb. 6, 1945, Schrenk joined some 8,000 men from the camp on what became known as the "Death March." The prisoners were given their remaining Red Cross parcels and forced to march under guard ...

On Dec. 14, 1944, at the Palawan Prisoner of War (POW) Camp in the Philippines, a Japanese officer, a man they called “The Buzzard”, stood before the POWs and proclaimed, “Americans, your ...

Schrenk, a former U.S. Army Air Forces B-17 gunner who was shot down over Denmark in February 1944, spent about half of his 15 months as a POW enduring the harsh conditions at the camp.

This is the fourth part of a five-part series on the history of World War II POW camps in Michigan. Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3 are available to read here. The final story will be published next Sunday.

JACKMAN, Maine It took some searching, but 11 eighth-graders from Forest Hills Middle School pinpointed a long-forgotten landmark: a World War II prisoner of war camp 15 miles south of town at Spencer ...

A Cleveland hero finally comes home. U.S. Army 2nd Lt. William Bucey, who died as a POW during WWII, has been identified more than 80 years later.

The entrance to Plaza Cuartel, a former POW camp in Puerto Princesa, Philippines, is picutured in October 2024. Japanese guards burned and shot to death 139 U.S. troops there in December 1944.