A soldier who risked his life to protect hundreds of Jewish-American prisoners of war during World War II will posthumously receive the Medal of Honor more than 40 years after his death. Master Sgt.

Master Sgt. Roddie Edmonds will posthumously receive the Medal of Honor for shielding more than 200 Jewish Americans in a ...

Ordered at gunpoint to separate Jewish soldiers from other POWs, Army Master Sgt. Roddie Edmonds told a German commander: "We ...

Master Sgt. Roddie Edmonds risked his life in a Nazi POW camp, helping conceal the identities of more than 200 Jewish American soldiers.The post WWII hero who defied Nazis to ...

As World War II reshaped rural Iowa, German prisoners of war became an essential labor force, and, in some cases, unexpected friends and neighbors.

Answer to yesterday’s Masters quiz question: Anthony Kim posted 11 birdies in the second round of the 2009 Masters. Here’s some more 19th hole fodder to impress your buddies and something I bet you ...

After the Allies’ defeat of the Afrika Corp in May 1943, “there was nowhere else to put the Germans but in America,” writes journalist Geroux (The Ghost Ships of Archangel) in this exhilarating ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. SAN ANTONIO (KXAN) — The graves of two Nazi ...

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 ...

In 1943, hundreds of thousands of German prisoners of war were sent to the United States after the collapse of the Afrika Korps. What they witnessed—industrial scale, agricultural abundance, and ...

The water tower was the last remaining structure from the Nazi POW camp on the Gaviota Coast. Windy weather in December 2024 destroyed the structure. Contributed photo This Christmas brought our area ...