He died starving as a prisoner of war after Japanese troops invaded during World War II, wresting the few dozen residents ...

Recent A recent paper by Japanese historian Tokushi Kasahara has revealed previously unknown materials related to the Nanjing ...

New Zealand’s oldest man and former James “Jim” Easton has celebrated another lap around the sun, hitting the grand old age ...

This ain’t paradise anymore, this is a battlefield,” says one of the United States Army nurses in the dramatic play “Angels of Bataan” on stage at Eastmont ...

After World War II there were from 560,000 to 760,000 Japanese personnel in the Soviet Union and Mongolia interned to work in labor camps as POWs. Of them, it is estimated that between 60,000 and ...

Not to spoil the rest of the story, ultimately, a small faction of men survived, only to then face a barrage of Japanese bullets in the water. Ultimately, 380 men would be rescued by dozens of local ...

Japan invaded the most westerly of Alaska’s Aleutian Islands and took 41 residents as prisoners of war. Twenty-two of them ...

SO HAPPY FOR THIS FAMILY. WE HAVE ANOTHER GOOD ONE FOR YOU, PATTI STEVENS WAS ONE OF NEARLY 5000 AMERICANS HELD CAPTIVE IN THE PHILIPPINES BY JAPANESE SOLDIERS IN WORLD WAR TWO, BUT TODAY SHE IS ...

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A new documentary film investigates what triggered the doomed attempted escape of more than 1,000 Japanese prisoners of war from a POW camp in Cowra, Australia, during the Pacific War. Almost all ...

PATTY STEVENS WAS BORN NOVEMBER 25TH, 1924, SPENDING MOST OF HER CHILDHOOD IN THE PHILIPPINES. AT 17, SHE AND HER FAMILY WERE ARRESTED BY JAPANESE SOLDIERS AND SENT TO AN INTERNMENT CAMP. I WAS A ...