The first purpose-built prisoner-of-war camp was constructed ... located outside Phoenix, Arizona. Drechsler was eventually exposed as an enemy agent by other prisoners and later found hung.
THERE’S A LOT TO LOOK AT HERE, LIKE THE FOUNDATION FROM AN OFFICE WHERE GERMAN PRISONERS OF WAR WERE INTERVIEWED IN SOUNDPROOF ROOMS. SO THERE WERE SIX OF THESE SCATTERED ACROSS THE CAMP.
A wildfire broke out near the Arizona National Guard Weapons Training Range along state Route 79 outside Florence. It covered ...
The camp Binns was describing was the Zentsuji Prison Camp on the southern tip of Japan. It was the first stop for all of the prisoners from Guam. Some, like Binns and Ross, stayed in Zentsuji for ...
An escape (and return) plan is hatched By 1942, Italian POW Felice Benuzzi was a prisoner at Camp 354, near Nanyuki, Kenya. Conditions at the camp were not terrible, but Benuzzi was extremely bored.
Almost a year after his capture, Sneden was paroled and left under the supervision of Isaiah White, a physician serving Camp Lawton, a newly built POW camp in east Georgia where Sneden had been ...
The camp was built in 1941 to hold Italian prisoners, but three years later it had started taking some of the many German soldiers captured following D-Day. "I couldn't drive at the time," said Mr ...
Florence, Arizona is a cowboy town with a prison problem. Founded in 1866, this bastion of the Wild West is home to 8,500 civilians and 17,000 inmates spread over nine prisons.
It was in the summer of 1968 when we told how a former Italian PoW returned to Norwich to visit the family who befriended him when he was at a camp on Mousehold Lane towards the end of the Second ...
A small wildfire has broken out near the Arizona National Guard Weapons Training Range along state Route 79 outside Florence. The Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management posted on X ...
A small wildfire has broken out near the Arizona National Guard Weapons Training Range along state Route 79 outside Florence. The Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management posted on X ...