U.S. Army Lt. Col. Louis E. Roemer was taken prisoner in the Philippines when the Japanese in May 1942 captured the island fortress of Corregidor, after American forces lost the Bataan Peninsula.

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The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced that Ira Warren, a U.S. Army private from West Virginia has been officially ...

In the final months of World War II, Japanese kamikaze attacks threatened to overwhelm the U.S. Navy. This story follows ...

A soldier from Delaware has been accounted for decades after he was reportedly killed while a prisoner of war in the ...

The Pentagon identified Delaware soldier Lt. Col. Louis Roemer, missing since WWII, decades after his capture and death.

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WVLT) - A Knoxville soldier who fought in World War II has been identified decades after his death.

Japanese soldiers were beating a POW to the brink of death... that is until Richard Antrim stepped forward and offered to ...

Polvado was killed in action on Dec. 12, 1944, in Pachten, Germany. His body could not be recovered due to intense fighting ...

In January 1945, during World War II, American intelligence officers examined an intact Japanese bomber and uncovered a ...

Japan Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi called on “like-minded” Indo-Pacific nations to link defense and capability efforts ...