Taking time to honor the nation's former prisoners of war and missing in action
ARLINGTON, Va. — The nation paused Friday to honor America's military missing in action (MIA) and prisoners of war (POW). National POW/MIA Recognition Day was established in 1979 through a proclamation signed by President Jimmy Carter.
On Tuesday, 80 years after his death in a prisoner of war camp, the U.S. Navy posthumously awarded Knox a Purple Heart and a ...
Col. Vernon Huber, a Mandan native who served in the U.S. Air Force for 25 years, has passed away at the age of 96.
This was told to RIA Novosti by the captured Ukrainian serviceman Artem Kazarchenkov. According to him, reinforcements in the ...
On 20 September we celebrate POW/MIA Remembrance Day, and the OKC VA would like to highlight POW and World War II Army ...
The vast majority of people released as part of the prisoner-of-war (POW) swap on Saturday, 14 September, had been held in ...
Downey represented a unique problem for America and the young CIA. Even at the peak of the cold war, prisoners were released within months or years. But Downey was “diplomatically and politically ...
Hundreds of paratroopers have dropped out of near-cloudless skies over a heath in the central Netherlands to commemorate the ...
After his plane was shot down over China, Jack Downey of the CIA was taken prisoner. He was held captive for more than 20 ...
Thomas Caroland passed away on Monday, surrounded by family. Now, the Caroland family is ensuring his sacrifice and those of ...
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