YOKOHAMA, Japan — On the 80th anniversary of Japan’s surrender in World War II, the names of more than 1,000 troops who died as prisoners of war were read aloud Tuesday during a memorial ceremony at ...

WASHINGTON, D. C. - Nearly 80 years after the end of World War II, U.S. Army 2nd Lt. William B. Bucey is finally coming home to Cleveland. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced ...

BOONVILLE, N.Y. – Eight New York Army National Guard Soldiers provided funeral honors for a World War II Soldier who survived the infamous Bataan Death March --only to die in a Japanese POW camp later ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Army Capt. Willibald Charles Bianchi, Medal of Honor recipient. - Army/US Department of War World War II US Army Capt. Willibald ...

The Pentagon has launched one of its largest-ever underwater recovery missions to retrieve American ...

To commemorate this year’s POW/MIA Recognition Day on Sept. 19, volunteers with the non-profit Stories Behind the Stars (www.storiesbehindthestars.org) have written memorials to honor the American ...

Japanese camps survivor Tineke Einthoven, 87 - Copyright AFP Frederic DIDES Japanese camps survivor Tineke Einthoven, 87 - Copyright AFP Frederic DIDES Vincent-Xavier ...

The first letters that Joseph Frenette sent his wife Ruth from Hong Kong in 1941 are filled with detail. "Dearest Ruth, here I am putting in my second week in China," Frenette wrote in one letter. "It ...

A Detroit soldier who was captured and died as a prisoner of war (POW) during World War II has been identified and recovered. U.S. Army Pvt. Kenneth L. Kramer, 20, of Detroit, was a member of 19th Air ...

It has taken Tineke Einthoven 80 years to be able to speak about what she lived through as a child in brutal Japanese internment camps during World War II without breaking down. "Now I can talk about ...