This story is a companion to a piece about Iowa's prisoner of war camps. Read about Camp Algona, whose POWs helped on local farms here. In early 1945, as World War II ground toward its final months, ...
Around 2 a.m. on August 5, 1944, a Japanese man in distress climbed over a fence at the Cowra prisoner-of-war camp in New South Wales, Australia. He “was weeping and appeared to be in great fear,” an ...
To commemorate this year’s POW/MIA Recognition Day on Sept. 19, volunteers with the non-profit Stories Behind the Stars (www.storiesbehindthestars.org) have written memorials to honor the American ...
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