Cricket played behind the barbed wire in German prisoner-of-war camps in World War II was a huge morale booster for diggers, ...

As Australia and England clash in The Ashes cricket series, Australian War Memorial historians have uncovered two diaries ...

A World War Two veteran who fought in Normandy as a teenager before becoming a prisoner of war has died at the age of 100, a ...

Guards at the Curragh had blanks in their weapons and the internees, allied and German, were allowed to visit local pubs and ...

Les Schrenk and Casey Bukowski already share a special bond as World War II veterans. After all, not many from the Greatest ...

On Sept. 2, 1945, the official end of World War II came to pass with Japan’s signing of the Instrument of Surrender aboard ...

The new exhibition illustrates elements of the camp routine from the morning gong, through washing, meals and forced labor to ...

Amid the hardships of the war, Christmas dinner became an annual reprieve for far-flung troops across the globe.

Here’s a collection of excerpts from the special columns of This Month in Fort McCoy history that highlighted history at then-Camp McCoy in September ...

Eighty years ago today, German artillery opened fire on an inexperienced American division that had been at the front for ...

Today, Camp Blanding in Clay County is primarily the home of the Florida National Guard, but during World War II, it was one ...

As the war progressed Herbert says he and his mother learnt more about what happened to other members of their family. Some ...