Editor's note: We Are Aiken County is a series of articles that will run through March 16. It celebrates people, places and events that shaped Aiken County. On a plot of ground across from Aiken High ...
TYLER, Texas (KLTV) - As the unprecedented D-Day invasion in France got underway in June 1944, German prisoners of war were arriving in Texas by the thousands. According to the Texas Historical ...
Helen Crumpacker and her mother-in-law cooked dinner for the German prisoners of war who had labored that day in the Crumpacker Bros. orchards near Bonsack. In POW camps in Salem, Catawba and across ...
During World War II, the U.S. began amassing huge numbers of German prisoners when the Afrika Korps, the Wehrmacht’s elite desert troops, surrendered to the Allied forces at Tunisia in May 1943. As ...
A small, wooden keepsake box adorned with carvings and the inscription, “Gefangenschaft Amerika 1944,” was donated in late January to the Fort McCoy Public Affairs Office for inclusion in the Fort ...
Prisoners of war found “a surprisingly pleasant experience” in Missouri during World War II. These Germans picked potatoes near Atherton and loaded them onto train boxcars. Jackson County Historical ...
SPARTA, Tenn. (WTVF) — Jim Sutcliffe — a World War II veteran who survived being held captive in a German prisoner-of-war camp — has died. He lived to the remarkable age of 102. According to his ...
Editor's note: This story originally appeared in 2017. When Italian soldiers wanted to be caught by American forces during World War II, they would play cards. The loser of the card game had to crawl ...
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