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

Transferred late in World War II, Japanese prisoners of war encountered suspicion in southwest Iowa before labor demands ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - A Missouri soldier, who was one of thousands killed in a Japanese internment camp in the Philippines during World War II, is finally expected to be laid to rest in Kansas ...

A group of POWs staged a sit-down strike at local processing plants. One POW, Heinz Golze, escaped from camps five times. Young women working alongside POWs were said to be "very familiar" with them.

For my and some previous generations, when anyone mentions “prisoner of war” we no doubt mentally picture a crude jungle enclosure manned by Asian captors with menacing rifles and bamboo palisades.

KOYAGI, Japan (AP) — Dozens of relatives of former Dutch prisoners of war who suffered abuse and starvation during their captivity in one of Japan’s largest World War II prison camps visited on ...

Introduction -- 1. The economics of incarceration and the blueprint for Japanese American labor -- 2. "What good was my contract?" : from free to convict laborers -- 3. "Worse than prisoners" : labor ...

Based on the author's thesis (doctoral - Yale University, 2009) issued under title: Testifying to rightlessness : redressing the camp in narratives of U.S. culture and law. NMAH copy Purchased from ...

John Lauritsen is an Emmy award-winning reporter from Montevideo, Minn. He joined WCCO-TV in late-July of 2007. Two days after he started, the Interstate 35W bridge collapsed. For many veterans, ...

The portrait of a Dutch soldier who was held in wartime prison camps in Nagasaki, is placed by flowers during a ceremony for the victims of the Fukuoka POW Camp No. 2 in Koyagi, Nagasaki city, western ...

February 4, 2007. Prince takes the stage for the half-time show at Super Bowl XLI. The show is hailed by many as the greatest half-time spectacle to date. Winter isn't done, but it's about to take an ...