At Iowa's Camp Clarinda, fear defined life for Japanese prisoners of war

Transferred late in World War II, Japanese prisoners of war encountered suspicion in southwest Iowa before labor demands ...
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WWII POWs remembered in Yokohama on 80th anniversary of Japan’s surrender

YOKOHAMA, Japan — On the 80th anniversary of Japan’s surrender in World War II, the names of more than 1,000 troops who died as prisoners of war were read aloud Tuesday during a memorial ceremony at ...
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Families’ fight over ‘forgotten soldiers’ taken prisoners of war by Japan

A GROUP brought together by their fathers’ suffering in the Second World War want more recognition for the “forgotten men of the forgotten army”. Ahead of the 70th anniversary of Victory over Japan ...
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The Second World War: 1939 - 1945

On the morning of August 9th 1945, air raid sirens began to ring out in the Japanese city of Nagasaki. However, a short while later the sirens rang out again indicating that there was no danger and ...