Richard Antrim: A POW Hero
USS Pope, the ship Antrim was serving on when taken as a POW Following World War II, Richard Antrim of the U.S. Navy received the Medal of Honor for the selflessness and bravery he showed while being...
View ArticleJapanese Hell Ships
Oryoku Maru, Japanese hell ship sunk December 1944 They were called “hell ships” with good reason. The conditions were deplorable aboard these ships used by the Japanese to transport Allied prisoners...
View ArticleBritish Prison Ships
An exterior view of the prison ship HMS Jersey Although 4,500 to 8,000 Americans died in battle during the Revolutionary War, an even higher number—an estimated 8,000 to 12,000—died during that time on...
View ArticleThe March of Death
POWs of Bataan Death March The Bataan Death March began with 90,000 to 100,000 POWs, but only 54,000 reached their destination at Camp O’Donnell. Men who became exhausted and fell along the way were...
View ArticleOnly Eleven Survived
Remains of a POW burned at Palawan “They said there was an air raid, you know, the Japanese did… And they told us to get in the tunnels out of sight and we did…” said Eugene Nielsen in an interview...
View ArticleDischarged Emaciated from Libby Prison
Libby Prison for Union soldiers in Richmond, Virginia “He then looked very sick, pale, and emaciated. He was hardly able to get about. He was afflicted chronic diarrhea, and complained of severe...
View ArticleAmerican Accused of Killing 150 German Prisoners of War
Telegram regarding American soldier accused of killing 150 German POWs On August 18, 1918, the commanding general of the 42nd Division wrote a telegram demanding an investigation into accusations that...
View ArticleSole Survivor of the B-17 “Naughty but Nice”
Jose Holguin describes being thrown from his plane On June 26, 1943, Japanese night fighters attacked the B17E “Naughty but Nice” with 1st Lieutenant Jose L. Holguin and nine other crew members aboard....
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