Manny Ruben awoke midair, gasping for breath as he plunged through a cold blue sky some 20,000 feet above the ground. Planes burst into fireballs around him. He last recalled trying to help his buddy ...

At 19 years old, Leland Chandler was captured in the Philippines and sent to Japan aboard a notorious “hell ship.” ...

A Missouri Army officer killed while a POW in World War II has been identified after decades, bringing long‑awaited answers ...

FLORIEN, La. – The remains of a U.S. Army serviceman who died as a prisoner of war during World War II will be buried Tuesday with full military honors. U.S. Army Pvt. Blanchard E. Pruitt, 19, of ...

SHELBY COUNTY — The POW/MIA branch of the Navy Casualty Office recently announced that Indiana native Delbert Martin, who died in aerial combat in the battle to secure Yap (modern-day Federated States ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WOWK) – Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced this week that two West Virginia soldiers missing since they were taken prisoners of war in their conflicts have now been ...

He was saved by a Jersey family after escaping a Nazi labour camp, but after the war he disappeared in the Soviet Union.

LAKE PLACID – More than 120,000 American soldiers spent part of World War II in captivity. While many lived to see the war end and returned to long, healthy lives stateside, that time as a prisoner of ...

The remains of SSgt. Carl Abbott, a Salinas native and World War II veteran, was brought back to the Central Coast after 84 years, following a lengthy identification process.

John Lauritsen is an Emmy award-winning reporter from Montevideo, Minn. He joined WCCO-TV in late-July of 2007. Two days after he started, the Interstate 35W bridge collapsed. For many veterans, ...