The POWs were sent to Maine to serve as laborers during WWII and three of them escaped for four days. The nearest public road was 19 miles through the woods.

Northern Minnesota is enjoying a tourism boom like never before this year. In Duluth, tourism tax revenue is up 9.4 percent over the same period last year. Winona and the Rochester A’s won their ...

A group of POWs staged a sit-down strike at local processing plants. One POW, Heinz Golze, escaped from camps five times. Young women working alongside POWs were said to be "very familiar" with them.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A former hospital building at the Crossville POW camp at the Clyde York 4-H Center. Photograph courtesy of 'Tennessee History for ...

During World War II, hundreds of German and Italian prisoners of war were held in camps throughout the Red River Valley, Kenneth Dawes, a retired UND professor, told a group of more than 100 who ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. During World War II, the United States set up hundreds of prisoner of war camps in the U.S., including nearly 40 in Wisconsin. But ...

One of the ironies of the Minnesota home front during World War II is that while so many local men were in Europe fighting Nazi Germany, German prisoners of war held here were put to work in the state ...

At a time when their countries were at war, German prisoners of war and their supervisor at Reading Army Airfield forged a relationship that lasted well beyond the end of World War II in 1945. From ...

At the beginning of 1945, the Soviet Red Army was massing more than 2 million men and 4,500 tanks in Poland for the offensive that would take them to the steps of the Reichstag in Berlin, the seat of ...

Highest US military distinction awarded posthumously to Roderick W. Edmonds, who refused to let Nazis separate Jewish prisoners of war in 1945 The post WWII vet who shielded Jews at Nazi POW camp at ...