U.S. Army Pvt. Harland J. Hennessey of Boonville was captured and died as a prisoner of war during World War II.

It didn't take long, however, for word about the good conditions in all 644 U.S. POW camps to reach the European front. As former POWs at a reunion in Arizona relate in this story, prisoners had ...

President Donald Trump's refusal to bring a Maryland man, who was wrongfully deported to a notorious prison in El Salvador, back to the United States — despite a Supreme Court ruling — has raised ...

A U.S. soldier killed in World War II will finally be buried in his hometown of Boonville, NY more than 80 years after his death.

World War II, the Holocaust and the horrors of Nazi violence ... means. We liberated these prisoners in the Mauthausen ...

Various inspirational prison escapes occurred during WWII, and we're going to be looking at some noteworthy escapes from Allied prisoners.

On August 29, 1945, photographer John Swope, aboard a U.S. Navy landing craft, snapped a photo of men in a Japanese prison camp the Navy had come to liberate. The POWs told him that the constant ...

Locked up in prison, surrounded by barbed wire.” That's how Morton Grove storyteller Anne Shimojima described her parents’ ...

“the U.S. government had no blueprint for handling an influx of prisoners in World War II.” American know-how came to the rescue in the rapid construction of the camps. At its height, the ...