Jonathan Wainwright, the highest-ranking American POW of World War II ... during the early days of World War II, when the Japanese invaded the islands after attacking Pearl Harbor.

San Luis Obispo History Center hosts ‘A Dream Interrupted’ through August – Cal Poly anthropology and geography students are ...

Two Westmoreland County airmen who survived the loss of their B-29 bombers during separate World War II missions over Japan ...

Nearly 80 years after a devastating fire tore through a Japanese military prison during World War II, a Defense Department ... killing dozens of American POWs interred there.

While the remains of over 1,100 American and 850 Dutch POWs were repatriated ... The 80th anniversary of the end of WWII offers an excellent opportunity for Japan and former Allied nations ...

Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency An American soldier who was killed during World War II has been accounted for ... But investigators later realized that Japanese forces had captured Hodak as ...

O’Donovan, who died during World War II, will be interred Tuesday at ... subjected to the 65-mile Bataan Death March and held in POW camps by Japan. According to historical records O’Donovan ...

O’DONNELL, Texas (KCBD) - A World War II solider is ... Group, when Japanese forces invaded the Philippine Islands in December 1941. He was among thousands of U.S. and Filipino service members were ...