Visitors aboard the USS Alabama learned about prisoner of war camps in the United States during a recent Snowbird lecture at Battleship Memorial Park.

Over the past year, WCCO has shared stories about a 101-year-old World War II veteran from Bloomington. We caught up with Les Schrenk on the beaches of Normandy for the 80th anniversary of D-Day last ...

Roddie Edmonds is one of only five Americans to be credited as Righteous Among the Nations, having been bestowed the honor for his actions during the Battle of the Bulge in 1945 ...

A Detroit soldier who was captured and died as a prisoner of war (POW) during World War II has been identified and recovered. U.S. Army Pvt. Kenneth L. Kramer, 20, of Detroit, was a member of 19th Air ...

John Lauritsen is an Emmy award-winning reporter from Montevideo, Minn. He joined WCCO-TV in late-July of 2007. Two days after he started, the Interstate 35W bridge collapsed. For many veterans, ...

To commemorate this year’s POW/MIA Recognition Day on Sept. 19, volunteers with the non-profit Stories Behind the Stars (www.storiesbehindthestars.org) have written memorials to honor the American ...

POW artifacts will also be on display. The keynote speaker will be Arnold Krammer of Texas A&M University, a leading scholar and author on World War II POW camps throughout the United States. Krammer ...

During the Second World War, hundreds of thousands of German (and Italian) PoWs were shipped to the United Kingdom and even the United States to be detained and await their trial. In March 1945, one ...

WASHINGTON (7News) — More than 60 years ago, Jim Kurtz found a treasure chest in the attic of his home, but it wasn’t made of wood and it didn’t hold gold. It was a simple green box filled with ...