The Red Army surrounded the city and on May 2, the Berlin garrison surrendered. On May 8, the unconditional surrender of the ...

WATERLOO - It was not Abu Ghraib. In fact, it was quite the opposite. Prisoners of war weren't mistreated under Eldred Harman's watch as an Army military policeman in World War II. They planted crops.

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A German Luftwaffe pilot and a Mississippi Delta farmer’s wife made a run for it in January 1946, eight months after World War II ended in Europe. Their brief escape captured headlines across the ...

Shot down over occupied Europe, an American pilot survived capture, interrogation, and months behind barbed wire. As the ...