Once he was close enough, he shoved the barrel of his submachine gun through the pillbox opening and forced four of the five surviving German soldiers to surrender. He sent the captured Germans ...

Eric Reeves, 104, joined the Territorial Army at 16 and became a Lance Corporal with the Queen's Royal Regiment by the age of ...

After the policy forbidding German Jews from serving ... considered by many POWs to be a much more menacing proposition than being captured by the Americans, if they didn't talk.

If a captured foe had displayed bravery in battle ... After the war, hundreds of German prisoners were blown to bits when the Allies forced them to clear land mines in Holland and other European ...

TYCHOWO, Poland - Eighty years after his liberation from a German prisoner of war camp ... 327th Squadron. He was captured on Feb. 22, 1944, after his B-17 bomber, "Pot O' Gold," was shot down ...

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.