Eight POWs--seven Dutch and one British--died in the U.S. atomic bombing of the city on Aug. 9, 1945. The branch camp was located 1.7 kilometers from ground zero. More than 100 POWs also died from ...

Captain Julius Morris Green was captured by Nazis in 1940 at Dunkirk He spent most of the war in POW camps including Colditz castle MI9 recruited him as a spy and he sent information back in coded ...

One of Cooper’s jobs was to “butter up” potential recruits from the ranks of British POWs. A special POW camp had been set up at Genshagen, just outside Berlin, where the conditions were ...

A British woman whose late father was a prisoner ... the site of the country's first POW camp. Prisoners are seen in a picture that appears to be taken at the Zentsuji camp for POWs when the ...

Jupp managed to escape into the water when the ship sank, but he was later captured and sent to a camp in Japan ... of the fishermen's rescue of British POWs was completed, and an official ...

A British prisoner of war has been sentenced to 19 years imprisonment in Russia for fighting for Ukraine, the region's judicial system reported today. James Scott Rhys Anderson, 22, was accused ...

RUSSIA has sentenced British PoW James Scott Rhys Anderson, 22, to 19 years in the gulag after he was brutally captured in the Kursk region. The ex-British Army squaddie was sentenced by Russian ...

“I initially knew nothing about why the British soldiers came all the way ... an engineer from New Zealand who was detained at a POW camp in Kamaishi, Iwate Prefecture, and died of burns ...