"We are survivors, not heroes," former prisoner of war Dennis Pavlik said Monday at the Governor's Mansion. By the time a ceremony marking the disbanding of the few remaining members of the Nebraska ...

WASHINGTON (AP) _ The Department of Veterans Affairs is trying to find thousands of former prisoners of war who have never claimed disability benefits. In radio, TV and newspaper appeals to run over ...

On this National Former Prisoner of War Recognition Day, we remember every American service member who carries the memory of being captured in war as a consequence of defending American freedom. Since ...

Hundreds of Allied prisoners of war were held in Japanese camps in Nagasaki when the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb 80 years ago ...

"I have worked with the local Low Country AX-POW chapter members and their spouses ..."--Foreword. Collection of reminiscences relating primarily to World War II and to experiences of prisoners held ...

Applicant must have been captured and incarcerated by an enemy of the United States during a period of conflict with the United States, have received an honorable discharge and provide a copy of a ...

It was the kind of role reversal that prisoners of war often fantasized about, only for Bill Kirkbride, this was real. A prisoner of the Germans just weeks earlier, the 22-year-old Tulsan suddenly ...

On the morning of Dec. 8, 1941, Sergeant David Akui walked along Waimanalo Beach and spotted what he thought was a sea turtle emerging from the surf. Akui quickly realized he had found something far ...

One of the oldest surviving veterans of World War II has told the Duchess of Edinburgh about his experience being held as a prisoner of war by Japanese troops, after his Royal Navy ship faced "torpedo ...