World War II combat veterans experienced many horrors in their service. Some of the worst were endured by prisoners of war.

After reaching the top of the mountain, a sense of humility, heritage, and legacy was felt by the Soldiers and community ...

The Six Triple Eight, a military battalion made up of 855 Black women during World War II, included 19 from Maryland.

The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency’s forensic lab in Hawaii has begun analyzing dozens of human remains retrieved from Laos and the Philippines in recent weeks in hopes of identifying U.S. service ...

The story of Ross Howard Thompson, a Maryville native who died after surviving the Bataan Death March in the Philippines in ...

“We are profoundly saddened by the sudden death of Gary Grier ... “It means more to me than anything in the world,” Moore said at the time. “It means my work — what I’ve done and ...

The war has already killed tens of thousands and displaced 12 million. OHCHR typically acknowledges that the true death tolls are likely far higher than the numbers they manage to document.

A 160-kilometer commemorative march will ... of the Bataan Death March and the Battle of Bataan. According to a statement on Friday, the 2025 "Freedom March" will take place on March 1 to 2, and will ...

This year the world will mark the 80th anniversary of VJ Day, when Japan formally surrendered to the Allies and ended the horrors of World War II. Eight decades ... a series of atrocities, from the ...

He is scheduled to die by lethal injection on March 20. Grissom and a co-defendant ... who said they likely would not have voted for the death penalty if they knew about Grissom's brain damage.