U.S. Army Pvt. Harland J. Hennessey of Boonville was captured and died as a prisoner of war during World War II.

Jonathan Wainwright, the highest-ranking American POW of World War II. Dana Perino: Who was Gen ... Perhaps the cruelest ...

After the policy forbidding German Jews from serving in the U.S. military was changed during World War II, Pins joined the ... of the Pentagon -- where German POWs were interrogated to glean ...

On April 9, 1942, the United States experienced its largest military surrender, followed by the infamous Bataan Death March.

U.S. Army Maj. James J. O’Donovan was captured, subjected to the 65-mile Bataan Death March and held in POW camps by Japan. He died a POW on Oct. 18, 1942, at age 34. He will be interred April 15 in ...

Jonathan Wainwright, the highest-ranking American POW of World War II. Jonathan Horn ... was isolation from the outside world. Receiving no letters for long periods and cut off from the news ...